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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2020-03-04 10:21:39 +0100
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media: docs: move uAPI book to userspace-api/media
Since 2017, there is an space reserved for userspace API, created by changeset 1d596dee3862 ("docs: Create a user-space API guide"). As the media subsystem was one of the first subsystems to use Sphinx, until this patch, we were keeping things on a separate place. Let's just use the new location, as having all uAPI altogether will likely make things easier for developers. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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+.. 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/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _VIDIOC_QUERYSTD:
+
+*********************************************
+ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYSTD, VIDIOC_SUBDEV_QUERYSTD
+*********************************************
+
+Name
+====
+
+VIDIOC_QUERYSTD - VIDIOC_SUBDEV_QUERYSTD - Sense the video standard received by the current input
+
+
+Synopsis
+========
+
+.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, VIDIOC_QUERYSTD, v4l2_std_id *argp )
+ :name: VIDIOC_QUERYSTD
+
+.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, VIDIOC_SUBDEV_QUERYSTD, v4l2_std_id *argp )
+ :name: VIDIOC_SUBDEV_QUERYSTD
+
+
+Arguments
+=========
+
+``fd``
+ File descriptor returned by :ref:`open() <func-open>`.
+
+``argp``
+ Pointer to :c:type:`v4l2_std_id`.
+
+
+Description
+===========
+
+The hardware may be able to detect the current video standard
+automatically. To do so, applications call :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYSTD` with a
+pointer to a :ref:`v4l2_std_id <v4l2-std-id>` type. The driver
+stores here a set of candidates, this can be a single flag or a set of
+supported standards if for example the hardware can only distinguish
+between 50 and 60 Hz systems. If no signal was detected, then the driver
+will return V4L2_STD_UNKNOWN. When detection is not possible or fails,
+the set must contain all standards supported by the current video input
+or output.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Drivers shall *not* switch the video standard
+ automatically if a new video standard is detected. Instead, drivers
+ should send the ``V4L2_EVENT_SOURCE_CHANGE`` event (if they support
+ this) and expect that userspace will take action by calling
+ :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYSTD`. The reason is that a new video standard can mean
+ different buffer sizes as well, and you cannot change buffer sizes on
+ the fly. In general, applications that receive the Source Change event
+ will have to call :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYSTD`, and if the detected video
+ standard is valid they will have to stop streaming, set the new
+ standard, allocate new buffers and start streaming again.
+
+
+Return Value
+============
+
+On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set
+appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the
+:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.
+
+ENODATA
+ Standard video timings are not supported for this input or output.