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-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst (renamed from Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst)32
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
index bd08e4f77ae4..a048a9f6b7b6 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.rst
@@ -1,11 +1,5 @@
-.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
-.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
-.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
-.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
-.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
-.. Documentation/media/uapi/fdl-appendix.rst.
-..
-.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later
+.. c:namespace:: V4L
.. _VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS:
@@ -18,24 +12,22 @@ Name
VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS - Create buffers for Memory Mapped or User Pointer or DMA Buffer I/O
-
Synopsis
========
-.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS, struct v4l2_create_buffers *argp )
- :name: VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS
+.. c:macro:: VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS
+``int ioctl(int fd, VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS, struct v4l2_create_buffers *argp)``
Arguments
=========
``fd``
- File descriptor returned by :ref:`open() <func-open>`.
+ File descriptor returned by :c:func:`open()`.
``argp``
Pointer to struct :c:type:`v4l2_create_buffers`.
-
Description
===========
@@ -78,10 +70,9 @@ the actual number allocated and the starting index in the ``count`` and
the ``index`` fields respectively. On return ``count`` can be smaller
than the number requested.
-
.. c:type:: v4l2_create_buffers
-.. tabularcolumns:: |p{4.4cm}|p{4.4cm}|p{8.7cm}|
+.. tabularcolumns:: |p{4.4cm}|p{4.4cm}|p{8.5cm}|
.. flat-table:: struct v4l2_create_buffers
:header-rows: 0
@@ -113,19 +104,24 @@ than the number requested.
- Set by the driver. If 0, then the driver doesn't support
capabilities. In that case all you know is that the driver is
guaranteed to support ``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP`` and *might* support
- other :c:type:`v4l2_memory` types. It will not support any others
+ other :c:type:`v4l2_memory` types. It will not support any other
capabilities. See :ref:`here <v4l2-buf-capabilities>` for a list of the
capabilities.
If you want to just query the capabilities without making any
other changes, then set ``count`` to 0, ``memory`` to
``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP`` and ``format.type`` to the buffer type.
+
* - __u32
- - ``reserved``\ [7]
+ - ``flags``
+ - Specifies additional buffer management attributes.
+ See :ref:`memory-flags`.
+
+ * - __u32
+ - ``reserved``\ [6]
- A place holder for future extensions. Drivers and applications
must set the array to zero.
-
Return Value
============