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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-03-06 08:34:41 +0100
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-04-14 10:32:45 +0200
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media: docs: move fourcc file to the uAPI document
This file gives a hint about how fourcc should be named. It is on a very weird place, as such kind of thing belongs to the uAPI guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/fourcc.rst32
-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/index.rst1
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 33 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/fourcc.rst b/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/fourcc.rst
deleted file mode 100644
index d3482c40da62..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/fourcc.rst
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
-
-Guidelines for Video4Linux pixel format 4CCs
-============================================
-
-Guidelines for Video4Linux 4CC codes defined using v4l2_fourcc() are
-specified in this document. First of the characters defines the nature of
-the pixel format, compression and colour space. The interpretation of the
-other three characters depends on the first one.
-
-Existing 4CCs may not obey these guidelines.
-
-Raw bayer
----------
-
-The following first characters are used by raw bayer formats:
-
-- B: raw bayer, uncompressed
-- b: raw bayer, DPCM compressed
-- a: A-law compressed
-- u: u-law compressed
-
-2nd character: pixel order
-
-- B: BGGR
-- G: GBRG
-- g: GRBG
-- R: RGGB
-
-3rd character: uncompressed bits-per-pixel 0--9, A--
-
-4th character: compressed bits-per-pixel 0--9, A--
diff --git a/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/index.rst b/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/index.rst
index 67665a8abe02..8962a86dad70 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/v4l-drivers/index.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of Linux.
:maxdepth: 5
:numbered:
- fourcc
v4l-with-ir
tuners
cardlist