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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2010-02-20 13:41:03 +0100
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-02-26 19:11:05 +0100
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parentV4L/DVB: saa7115: fix saa7111a support (diff)
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V4L/DVB: media-spec: Fix documentation mistakes regarding I/O streaming
The media spec contains several errors in the description of the I/O streaming ioctls, in particular with respect to the userptr I/O method. The most important change is that you really need to set count and index in v4l2_requestbuffer and v4l2_buffer when dealing with user pointer streaming. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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@@ -589,7 +589,8 @@ number of a video input as in &v4l2-input; field
<entry></entry>
<entry>A place holder for future extensions and custom
(driver defined) buffer types
-<constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_PRIVATE</constant> and higher.</entry>
+<constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_PRIVATE</constant> and higher. Applications
+should set this to 0.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>