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authorSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>2016-10-18 15:15:32 +0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-11-16 16:29:44 +0100
commit708f48e76d6de7a90e583e2b1e6b54be1a53cc1b (patch)
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parent[media] st-hva: fix a copy-and-paste variable name error (diff)
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[media] v4l: Document that m2m devices have a file handle specific context
Memory-to-memory V4L2 devices all have file handle specific context. Say this in the API documentation so that the user space may rely on it being the case. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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-rw-r--r--include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h3
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diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h b/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
index 1b355344c804..3ccd01bd245e 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-mem2mem.h
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ struct v4l2_m2m_queue_ctx {
* %TRANS_QUEUED, %TRANS_RUNNING and %TRANS_ABORT.
* @finished: Wait queue used to signalize when a job queue finished.
* @priv: Instance private data
+ *
+ * The memory to memory context is specific to a file handle, NOT to e.g.
+ * a device.
*/
struct v4l2_m2m_ctx {
/* optional cap/out vb2 queues lock */