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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-21 15:49:32 +0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> | 2016-07-23 14:04:21 +0300 |
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[media] v4l2-subdev.rst: add cross references to new sections
The two new sections were missing cross-references, and had
some other minor issues with the markups. Add such things.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/media/kapi')
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1 files changed, 82 insertions, 70 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/kapi/v4l2-subdev.rst b/Documentation/media/kapi/v4l2-subdev.rst index 2845a749409c..80982a9d002f 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/kapi/v4l2-subdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/kapi/v4l2-subdev.rst @@ -265,27 +265,28 @@ called. All three callbacks are optional. V4L2 sub-device userspace API ----------------------------- -Beside exposing a kernel API through the v4l2_subdev_ops structure, V4L2 -sub-devices can also be controlled directly by userspace applications. +Beside exposing a kernel API through the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev_ops` structure, +V4L2 sub-devices can also be controlled directly by userspace applications. -Device nodes named v4l-subdevX can be created in /dev to access sub-devices -directly. If a sub-device supports direct userspace configuration it must set -the V4L2_SUBDEV_FL_HAS_DEVNODE flag before being registered. +Device nodes named ``v4l-subdev``\ *X* can be created in ``/dev`` to access +sub-devices directly. If a sub-device supports direct userspace configuration +it must set the ``V4L2_SUBDEV_FL_HAS_DEVNODE`` flag before being registered. -After registering sub-devices, the v4l2_device driver can create device nodes -for all registered sub-devices marked with V4L2_SUBDEV_FL_HAS_DEVNODE by calling -v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes(). Those device nodes will be automatically -removed when sub-devices are unregistered. +After registering sub-devices, the :c:type:`v4l2_device` driver can create +device nodes for all registered sub-devices marked with +``V4L2_SUBDEV_FL_HAS_DEVNODE`` by calling +:cpp:func:`v4l2_device_register_subdev_nodes`. Those device nodes will be +automatically removed when sub-devices are unregistered. The device node handles a subset of the V4L2 API. -VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL -VIDIOC_QUERYMENU -VIDIOC_G_CTRL -VIDIOC_S_CTRL -VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS -VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS -VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS +``VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL``, +``VIDIOC_QUERYMENU``, +``VIDIOC_G_CTRL``, +``VIDIOC_S_CTRL``, +``VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS``, +``VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS`` and +``VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS``: The controls ioctls are identical to the ones defined in V4L2. They behave identically, with the only exception that they deal only with @@ -293,9 +294,9 @@ VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS controls can be also be accessed through one (or several) V4L2 device nodes. -VIDIOC_DQEVENT -VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT -VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT +``VIDIOC_DQEVENT``, +``VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT`` and +``VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT`` The events ioctls are identical to the ones defined in V4L2. They behave identically, with the only exception that they deal only with @@ -303,12 +304,12 @@ VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT events can also be reported by one (or several) V4L2 device nodes. Sub-device drivers that want to use events need to set the - V4L2_SUBDEV_USES_EVENTS v4l2_subdev::flags and initialize - v4l2_subdev::nevents to events queue depth before registering the - sub-device. After registration events can be queued as usual on the - v4l2_subdev::devnode device node. + ``V4L2_SUBDEV_USES_EVENTS`` :c:type:`v4l2_subdev`.flags and initialize + :c:type:`v4l2_subdev`.nevents to events queue depth before registering + the sub-device. After registration events can be queued as usual on the + :c:type:`v4l2_subdev`.devnode device node. - To properly support events, the poll() file operation is also + To properly support events, the ``poll()`` file operation is also implemented. Private ioctls @@ -321,84 +322,89 @@ I2C sub-device drivers ---------------------- Since these drivers are so common, special helper functions are available to -ease the use of these drivers (v4l2-common.h). +ease the use of these drivers (``v4l2-common.h``). -The recommended method of adding v4l2_subdev support to an I2C driver is to -embed the v4l2_subdev struct into the state struct that is created for each -I2C device instance. Very simple devices have no state struct and in that case -you can just create a v4l2_subdev directly. +The recommended method of adding :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` support to an I2C driver +is to embed the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` struct into the state struct that is +created for each I2C device instance. Very simple devices have no state +struct and in that case you can just create a :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` directly. A typical state struct would look like this (where 'chipname' is replaced by the name of the chip): -.. code-block:: none +.. code-block:: c struct chipname_state { struct v4l2_subdev sd; ... /* additional state fields */ }; -Initialize the v4l2_subdev struct as follows: +Initialize the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` struct as follows: -.. code-block:: none +.. code-block:: c v4l2_i2c_subdev_init(&state->sd, client, subdev_ops); -This function will fill in all the fields of v4l2_subdev and ensure that the -v4l2_subdev and i2c_client both point to one another. +This function will fill in all the fields of :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` ensure that +the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` and i2c_client both point to one another. -You should also add a helper inline function to go from a v4l2_subdev pointer -to a chipname_state struct: +You should also add a helper inline function to go from a :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` +pointer to a chipname_state struct: -.. code-block:: none +.. code-block:: c static inline struct chipname_state *to_state(struct v4l2_subdev *sd) { return container_of(sd, struct chipname_state, sd); } -Use this to go from the v4l2_subdev struct to the i2c_client struct: +Use this to go from the :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` struct to the ``i2c_client`` +struct: -.. code-block:: none +.. code-block:: c struct i2c_client *client = v4l2_get_subdevdata(sd); -And this to go from an i2c_client to a v4l2_subdev struct: +And this to go from an ``i2c_client`` to a :c:type:`v4l2_subdev` struct: -.. code-block:: none +.. code-block:: c struct v4l2_subdev *sd = i2c_get_clientdata(client); -Make sure to call v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd) when the remove() callback -is called. This will unregister the sub-device from the bridge driver. It is -safe to call this even if the sub-device was never registered. +Make sure to call +:cpp:func:`v4l2_device_unregister_subdev`\ (:c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`) +when the ``remove()`` callback is called. This will unregister the sub-device +from the bridge driver. It is safe to call this even if the sub-device was +never registered. You need to do this because when the bridge driver destroys the i2c adapter -the remove() callbacks are called of the i2c devices on that adapter. +the ``remove()`` callbacks are called of the i2c devices on that adapter. After that the corresponding v4l2_subdev structures are invalid, so they -have to be unregistered first. Calling v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd) -from the remove() callback ensures that this is always done correctly. +have to be unregistered first. Calling +:cpp:func:`v4l2_device_unregister_subdev`\ (:c:type:`sd <v4l2_subdev>`) +from the ``remove()`` callback ensures that this is always done correctly. The bridge driver also has some helper functions it can use: -.. code-block:: none +.. code-block:: c struct v4l2_subdev *sd = v4l2_i2c_new_subdev(v4l2_dev, adapter, "module_foo", "chipid", 0x36, NULL); -This loads the given module (can be NULL if no module needs to be loaded) and -calls i2c_new_device() with the given i2c_adapter and chip/address arguments. -If all goes well, then it registers the subdev with the v4l2_device. +This loads the given module (can be ``NULL`` if no module needs to be loaded) +and calls :cpp:func:`i2c_new_device` with the given ``i2c_adapter`` and +chip/address arguments. If all goes well, then it registers the subdev with +the v4l2_device. -You can also use the last argument of v4l2_i2c_new_subdev() to pass an array -of possible I2C addresses that it should probe. These probe addresses are -only used if the previous argument is 0. A non-zero argument means that you +You can also use the last argument of :cpp:func:`v4l2_i2c_new_subdev` to pass +an array of possible I2C addresses that it should probe. These probe addresses +are only used if the previous argument is 0. A non-zero argument means that you know the exact i2c address so in that case no probing will take place. -Both functions return NULL if something went wrong. +Both functions return ``NULL`` if something went wrong. -Note that the chipid you pass to v4l2_i2c_new_subdev() is usually +Note that the chipid you pass to :cpp:func:`v4l2_i2c_new_subdev` is usually the same as the module name. It allows you to specify a chip variant, e.g. "saa7114" or "saa7115". In general though the i2c driver autodetects this. The use of chipid is something that needs to be looked at more closely at a @@ -408,32 +414,38 @@ for the i2c_device_id table. This lists all the possibilities. There are two more helper functions: -v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_cfg: this function adds new irq and platform_data -arguments and has both 'addr' and 'probed_addrs' arguments: if addr is not -0 then that will be used (non-probing variant), otherwise the probed_addrs -are probed. +:cpp:func:`v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_cfg`: this function adds new irq and +platform_data arguments and has both 'addr' and 'probed_addrs' arguments: +if addr is not 0 then that will be used (non-probing variant), otherwise the +probed_addrs are probed. For example: this will probe for address 0x10: -.. code-block:: none +.. code-block:: c struct v4l2_subdev *sd = v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_cfg(v4l2_dev, adapter, "module_foo", "chipid", 0, NULL, 0, I2C_ADDRS(0x10)); -v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board uses an i2c_board_info struct which is passed -to the i2c driver and replaces the irq, platform_data and addr arguments. +:cpp:func:`v4l2_i2c_new_subdev_board` uses an :c:type:`i2c_board_info` struct +which is passed to the i2c driver and replaces the irq, platform_data and addr +arguments. If the subdev supports the s_config core ops, then that op is called with -the irq and platform_data arguments after the subdev was setup. The older -v4l2_i2c_new_(probed\_)subdev functions will call s_config as well, but with -irq set to 0 and platform_data set to NULL. +the irq and platform_data arguments after the subdev was setup. + +The older :cpp:func:`v4l2_i2c_new_subdev` and +:cpp:func:`v4l2_i2c_new_probed_subdev` functions will call ``s_config`` as +well, but with irq set to 0 and platform_data set to ``NULL``. + +V4L2 sub-device functions and data structures +--------------------------------------------- -V4L2 subdev kAPI -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +V4L2 sub-device kAPI +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. kernel-doc:: include/media/v4l2-subdev.h -V4L2 subdev async kAPI -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +V4L2 sub-device asynchronous kAPI +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ .. kernel-doc:: include/media/v4l2-async.h |