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authorHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>2012-09-19 11:14:39 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-10-05 22:25:17 -0300
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parent[media] v4l2-ioctl.c: handle PREPARE_BUF like QUERYBUF (diff)
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[media] DocBook: various updates w.r.t. v4l2_buffer and multiplanar
Clarify the behavior of v4l2_buffer in the multiplanar case, including fixing a false statement: you can't set m.planes to NULL when calling DQBUF. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/io.xml
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@@ -677,8 +677,10 @@ memory, set by the application. See <xref linkend="userp" /> for details.
<entry><structfield>length</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>Size of the buffer (not the payload) in bytes for the
- single-planar API. For the multi-planar API should contain the
- number of elements in the <structfield>planes</structfield> array.
+ single-planar API. For the multi-planar API the application sets
+ this to the number of elements in the <structfield>planes</structfield>
+ array. The driver will fill in the actual number of valid elements in
+ that array.
</entry>
</row>
<row>