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| author | Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> | 2012-09-03 14:21:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2012-09-26 14:26:57 +0200 |
| commit | 6bd4dd27f926519527b9c39709df13ad120d63f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 9b9f6c0fdf68097c6b63dbcfb023d29c72ae349d /Documentation | |
| parent | [media] videodev2.h: split off controls into v4l2-controls.h (diff) | |
| download | linux-6bd4dd27f926519527b9c39709df13ad120d63f9.tar.xz linux-6bd4dd27f926519527b9c39709df13ad120d63f9.zip | |
[media] DocBook: improve STREAMON/OFF documentation
Specify that STREAMON/OFF should return 0 if the stream is already
started/stopped.
The spec never specified what the correct behavior is. This ambiguity
was resolved during the 2012 Media Workshop.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.xml | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.xml index 81cca4569050..716ea15e54a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.xml @@ -74,7 +74,12 @@ not transmitted yet. I/O returns to the same state as after calling stream type. This is the same as &v4l2-requestbuffers; <structfield>type</structfield>.</para> - <para>Note applications can be preempted for unknown periods right + <para>If <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> is called when streaming +is already in progress, or if <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant> is called +when streaming is already stopped, then the ioctl does nothing and 0 is +returned.</para> + + <para>Note that applications can be preempted for unknown periods right before or after the <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> or <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant> calls, there is no notion of starting or stopping "now". Buffer timestamps can be used to |