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| author | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2022-11-25 20:15:32 +0100 |
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| committer | Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> | 2022-11-25 20:15:32 +0100 |
| commit | 0b21b4dc9a2204fba599a248f5c7ed7822f56154 (patch) | |
| tree | de1cf656290c3e8085e4b00a6b9cee4eff627270 /Documentation/driver-api | |
| parent | regulator: Drop obsolete dependencies on COMPILE_TEST (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 6.1-rc4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-0b21b4dc9a2204fba599a248f5c7ed7822f56154.tar.xz linux-0b21b4dc9a2204fba599a248f5c7ed7822f56154.zip | |
Merge tag 'v6.1-rc4' into regulator-6.2
Linux 6.1-rc4 which should get my CI working on RPi3s again.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst | 19 |
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst index 3e2dae954898..4b4d8e28d3be 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/basics.rst @@ -107,9 +107,6 @@ Kernel utility functions .. kernel-doc:: kernel/panic.c :export: -.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/overflow.h - :internal: - Device Resource Management -------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst index ff8158274fb3..fbdaa46e1d10 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst @@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ GPIO devm_gpio_request_one() I2C + devm_i2c_add_adapter() devm_i2c_new_dummy_device() IIO diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst index 84aa7cdb5341..400b8ca29367 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/mc-core.rst @@ -214,18 +214,29 @@ Link properties can be modified at runtime by calling Pipelines and media streams ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +A media stream is a stream of pixels or metadata originating from one or more +source devices (such as a sensors) and flowing through media entity pads +towards the final sinks. The stream can be modified on the route by the +devices (e.g. scaling or pixel format conversions), or it can be split into +multiple branches, or multiple branches can be merged. + +A media pipeline is a set of media streams which are interdependent. This +interdependency can be caused by the hardware (e.g. configuration of a second +stream cannot be changed if the first stream has been enabled) or by the driver +due to the software design. Most commonly a media pipeline consists of a single +stream which does not branch. + When starting streaming, drivers must notify all entities in the pipeline to prevent link states from being modified during streaming by calling :c:func:`media_pipeline_start()`. -The function will mark all entities connected to the given entity through -enabled links, either directly or indirectly, as streaming. +The function will mark all the pads which are part of the pipeline as streaming. The struct media_pipeline instance pointed to by -the pipe argument will be stored in every entity in the pipeline. +the pipe argument will be stored in every pad in the pipeline. Drivers should embed the struct media_pipeline in higher-level pipeline structures and can then access the -pipeline through the struct media_entity +pipeline through the struct media_pad pipe field. Calls to :c:func:`media_pipeline_start()` can be nested. |