From 8ed8c88c460fa6ce71deb9847f78a5bff4dfcb0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 08:02:19 -0200 Subject: [media] media-entity.h: get rid of revision and group_id fields Both revision and group_id fields were never used and were always initialized to zero. Remove them. Suggested-by: Laurent Pinchart Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml | 13 ++----------- Documentation/media-framework.txt | 12 +++++------- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml index 27f8817e7abe..9f7614a01234 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml @@ -59,15 +59,6 @@ Entity IDs can be non-contiguous. Applications must not try to enumerate entities by calling MEDIA_IOC_ENUM_ENTITIES with increasing id's until they get an error. - Two or more entities that share a common non-zero - group_id value are considered as logically - grouped. Groups are used to report - - ALSA, VBI and video nodes that carry the same media - stream - lens and flash controllers associated with a sensor - - struct <structname>media_entity_desc</structname> @@ -106,7 +97,7 @@ revision - Entity revision in a driver/hardware specific format. + Entity revision. Always zero (obsolete) __u32 @@ -120,7 +111,7 @@ group_id - Entity group ID + Entity group ID. Always zero (obsolete) __u16 diff --git a/Documentation/media-framework.txt b/Documentation/media-framework.txt index 7fbfe4bd1f47..ef3663af1db3 100644 --- a/Documentation/media-framework.txt +++ b/Documentation/media-framework.txt @@ -110,10 +110,10 @@ If no pads are needed, drivers could directly fill entity->num_pads with 0 and entity->pads with NULL or to call the above function that will do the same. -The media_entity name, type, flags, revision and group_id fields should be -initialized before calling media_device_register_entity(). Entities embedded -in higher-level standard structures can have some of those fields set by the -higher-level framework. +The media_entity name, type and flags fields should be initialized before +calling media_device_register_entity(). Entities embedded in higher-level +standard structures can have some of those fields set by the higher-level +framework. As the number of pads is known in advance, the pads array is not allocated dynamically but is managed by the entity driver. Most drivers will embed the @@ -164,9 +164,7 @@ Entities have flags that describe the entity capabilities and state. Logical entity groups can be defined by setting the group ID of all member entities to the same non-zero value. An entity group serves no purpose in the -kernel, but is reported to userspace during entities enumeration. The group_id -field belongs to the media device driver and must not by touched by entity -drivers. +kernel, but is reported to userspace during entities enumeration. Media device drivers should define groups if several entities are logically bound together. Example usages include reporting -- cgit v1.2.3