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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-overlay.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-overlay.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..74310ff486ba --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-overlay.rst @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +.. 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_OVERLAY: + +******************** +ioctl VIDIOC_OVERLAY +******************** + +Name +==== + +VIDIOC_OVERLAY - Start or stop video overlay + + +Synopsis +======== + +.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, VIDIOC_OVERLAY, const int *argp ) + :name: VIDIOC_OVERLAY + + +Arguments +========= + +``fd`` + File descriptor returned by :ref:`open() <func-open>`. + +``argp`` + Pointer to an integer. + + +Description +=========== + +This ioctl is part of the :ref:`video overlay <overlay>` I/O method. +Applications call :ref:`VIDIOC_OVERLAY` to start or stop the overlay. It +takes a pointer to an integer which must be set to zero by the +application to stop overlay, to one to start. + +Drivers do not support :ref:`VIDIOC_STREAMON` or +:ref:`VIDIOC_STREAMOFF <VIDIOC_STREAMON>` with +``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OVERLAY``. + + +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. + +EINVAL + The overlay parameters have not been set up. See :ref:`overlay` + for the necessary steps. |