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| author | Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> | 2023-03-29 16:02:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> | 2023-08-10 07:58:32 +0200 |
| commit | 99939beaefca29ca105900afaf81e6e9e591d2ef (patch) | |
| tree | 2113f3390ee3959fedb1c5f73fd4e13fbf9d7255 /Documentation/driver-api | |
| parent | b8ec754ae4c563f6aab8c0cb47aeb2eae67f1da3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-99939beaefca29ca105900afaf81e6e9e591d2ef.tar.gz lwn-99939beaefca29ca105900afaf81e6e9e591d2ef.zip | |
media: Documentation: v4l: Document sub-device notifiers
Document that sub-device notifiers are now registered using
v4l2_async_subdev_nf_init(). No documentation is changed as it seems that
sub-device notifiers were not documented apart from kernel-doc comments.
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> # imx6qp
Tested-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@ragnatech.se> # rcar + adv746x
Tested-by: Aishwarya Kothari <aishwarya.kothari@toradex.com> # Apalis i.MX6Q with TC358743
Tested-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com> # Renesas RZ/G2L SMARC
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst index eba5e4468282..e56b50b3f203 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-subdev.rst @@ -218,6 +218,17 @@ available. There may be one or more async connections to a given sub-device but this is not known at the time of adding the connections to the notifier. Async connections are bound as matching async sub-devices are found, one by one. +Asynchronous sub-device notifier for sub-devices +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +A driver that registers an asynchronous sub-device may also register an +asynchronous notifier. This is called an asynchronous sub-device notifier andthe +process is similar to that of a bridge driver apart from that the notifier is +initialised using :c:func:`v4l2_async_subdev_nf_init` instead. A sub-device +notifier may complete only after the V4L2 device becomes available, i.e. there's +a path via async sub-devices and notifiers to a notifier that is not an +asynchronous sub-device notifier. + Asynchronous sub-device registration helper for camera sensor drivers ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |