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Merge tag 'media/v5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - Media documentation is now split into admin-guide, driver-api and userspace-api books (a longstanding request from Jon); - The media Kconfig was reorganized, in order to make easier to select drivers and their dependencies; - The testing drivers now has a separate directory; - added a new driver for Rockchip Video Decoder IP; - The atomisp staging driver was resurrected. It is meant to work with 4 generations of cameras on Atom-based laptops, tablets and cell phones. So, it seems worth investing time to cleanup this driver and making it in good shape. - Added some V4L2 core ancillary routines to help with h264 codecs; - Added an ov2740 image sensor driver; - The si2157 gained support for Analog TV, which, in turn, added support for some cx231xx and cx23885 boards to also support analog standards; - Added some V4L2 controls (V4L2_CID_CAMERA_ORIENTATION and V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION) to help identifying where the camera is located at the device; - VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT was extended to support MC-centric devices; - Lots of drivers improvements and cleanups. * tag 'media/v5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (503 commits) media: Documentation: media: Refer to mbus format documentation from CSI-2 docs media: s5k5baf: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array media: i2c: imx219: Drop <linux/clk-provider.h> and <linux/clkdev.h> media: i2c: Add ov2740 image sensor driver media: ov8856: Implement sensor module revision identification media: ov8856: Add devicetree support media: dt-bindings: ov8856: Document YAML bindings media: dvb-usb: Add Cinergy S2 PCIe Dual Port support media: dvbdev: Fix tuner->demod media controller link media: dt-bindings: phy: phy-rockchip-dphy-rx0: move rockchip dphy rx0 bindings out of staging media: staging: dt-bindings: phy-rockchip-dphy-rx0: remove non-used reg property media: atomisp: unify the version for isp2401 a0 and b0 versions media: atomisp: update TODO with the current data media: atomisp: adjust some code at sh_css that could be broken media: atomisp: don't produce errs for ignored IRQs media: atomisp: print IRQ when debugging media: atomisp: isp_mmu: don't use kmem_cache media: atomisp: add a notice about possible leak resources media: atomisp: disable the dynamic and reserved pools media: atomisp: turn on camera before setting it ...
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+.. 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
+
+.. _audio:
+
+************************
+Audio Inputs and Outputs
+************************
+
+Audio inputs and outputs are physical connectors of a device. Video
+capture devices have inputs, output devices have outputs, zero or more
+each. Radio devices have no audio inputs or outputs. They have exactly
+one tuner which in fact *is* an audio source, but this API associates
+tuners with video inputs or outputs only, and radio devices have none of
+these. [#f1]_ A connector on a TV card to loop back the received audio
+signal to a sound card is not considered an audio output.
+
+Audio and video inputs and outputs are associated. Selecting a video
+source also selects an audio source. This is most evident when the video
+and audio source is a tuner. Further audio connectors can combine with
+more than one video input or output. Assumed two composite video inputs
+and two audio inputs exist, there may be up to four valid combinations.
+The relation of video and audio connectors is defined in the
+``audioset`` field of the respective struct
+:c:type:`v4l2_input` or struct
+:c:type:`v4l2_output`, where each bit represents the index
+number, starting at zero, of one audio input or output.
+
+To learn about the number and attributes of the available inputs and
+outputs applications can enumerate them with the
+:ref:`VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO` and
+:ref:`VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT <VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT>` ioctl, respectively.
+The struct :c:type:`v4l2_audio` returned by the
+:ref:`VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO` ioctl also contains signal
+status information applicable when the current audio input is queried.
+
+The :ref:`VIDIOC_G_AUDIO <VIDIOC_G_AUDIO>` and
+:ref:`VIDIOC_G_AUDOUT <VIDIOC_G_AUDOUT>` ioctls report the current
+audio input and output, respectively.
+
+.. note::
+
+ Note that, unlike :ref:`VIDIOC_G_INPUT <VIDIOC_G_INPUT>` and
+ :ref:`VIDIOC_G_OUTPUT <VIDIOC_G_OUTPUT>` these ioctls return a
+ structure as :ref:`VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO` and
+ :ref:`VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT <VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT>` do, not just an index.
+
+To select an audio input and change its properties applications call the
+:ref:`VIDIOC_S_AUDIO <VIDIOC_G_AUDIO>` ioctl. To select an audio
+output (which presently has no changeable properties) applications call
+the :ref:`VIDIOC_S_AUDOUT <VIDIOC_G_AUDOUT>` ioctl.
+
+Drivers must implement all audio input ioctls when the device has
+multiple selectable audio inputs, all audio output ioctls when the
+device has multiple selectable audio outputs. When the device has any
+audio inputs or outputs the driver must set the ``V4L2_CAP_AUDIO`` flag
+in the struct :c:type:`v4l2_capability` returned by
+the :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` ioctl.
+
+
+Example: Information about the current audio input
+==================================================
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ struct v4l2_audio audio;
+
+ memset(&audio, 0, sizeof(audio));
+
+ if (-1 == ioctl(fd, VIDIOC_G_AUDIO, &audio)) {
+ perror("VIDIOC_G_AUDIO");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+ printf("Current input: %s\\n", audio.name);
+
+
+Example: Switching to the first audio input
+===========================================
+
+.. code-block:: c
+
+ struct v4l2_audio audio;
+
+ memset(&audio, 0, sizeof(audio)); /* clear audio.mode, audio.reserved */
+
+ audio.index = 0;
+
+ if (-1 == ioctl(fd, VIDIOC_S_AUDIO, &audio)) {
+ perror("VIDIOC_S_AUDIO");
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+
+.. [#f1]
+ Actually struct :c:type:`v4l2_audio` ought to have a
+ ``tuner`` field like struct :c:type:`v4l2_input`, not
+ only making the API more consistent but also permitting radio devices
+ with multiple tuners.