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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-22 03:50:31 +0300 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-22 03:50:31 +0300 |
commit | 13a3cec8443290b082af2a5254562aca247fe591 (patch) | |
tree | 5c873a2c9333be348266234ac5d7101caa1b6d7d /Documentation/video4linux | |
parent | 973c9f4f49ca96a53bcf6384c4c59ccd26c33906 (diff) | |
parent | 88914bdf8c677ebd7e797adac05e47303fd6ac77 (diff) | |
download | linux-13a3cec8443290b082af2a5254562aca247fe591.tar.xz |
Merge branch 'media_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'media_fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (101 commits)
[media] staging/lirc: fix mem leaks and ptr err usage
[media] hdpvr: reduce latency of i2c read/write w/recycled buffer
[media] hdpvr: enable IR part
[media] rc/mceusb: timeout should be in ns, not us
[media] v4l2-device: fix 'use-after-freed' oops
[media] v4l2-dev: don't memset video_device.dev
[media] zoran: use video_device_alloc instead of kmalloc
[media] w9966: zero device state after a detach
[media] v4l: Fix a use-before-set in the control framework
[media] v4l: Include linux/videodev2.h in media/v4l2-ctrls.h
[media] DocBook/v4l: update V4L2 revision and update copyright years
[media] DocBook/v4l: fix validation error in dev-rds.xml
[media] v4l2-ctrls: queryctrl shouldn't attempt to replace V4L2_CID_PRIVATE_BASE IDs
[media] v4l2-ctrls: fix missing 'read-only' check
[media] pvrusb2: Provide more information about IR units to lirc_zilog and ir-kbd-i2c
[media] ir-kbd-i2c: Add back defaults setting for Zilog Z8's at addr 0x71
[media] lirc_zilog: Update TODO.lirc_zilog
[media] lirc_zilog: Add Andy Walls to copyright notice and authors list
[media] lirc_zilog: Remove useless struct i2c_driver.command function
[media] lirc_zilog: Remove unneeded tests for existence of the IR Tx function
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/video4linux')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt index 8773778d23fc..881e7f44491b 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt @@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ implement g_volatile_ctrl like this: The 'new value' union is not used in g_volatile_ctrl. In general controls that need to implement g_volatile_ctrl are read-only controls. +Note that if one or more controls in a control cluster are marked as volatile, +then all the controls in the cluster are seen as volatile. + To mark a control as volatile you have to set the is_volatile flag: ctrl = v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&sd->ctrl_handler, ...); @@ -462,6 +465,15 @@ pointer to the v4l2_ctrl_ops struct that is used for that cluster. Obviously, all controls in the cluster array must be initialized to either a valid control or to NULL. +In rare cases you might want to know which controls of a cluster actually +were set explicitly by the user. For this you can check the 'is_new' flag of +each control. For example, in the case of a volume/mute cluster the 'is_new' +flag of the mute control would be set if the user called VIDIOC_S_CTRL for +mute only. If the user would call VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS for both mute and volume +controls, then the 'is_new' flag would be 1 for both controls. + +The 'is_new' flag is always 1 when called from v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup(). + VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS Support ========================= |