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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-03-04 12:21:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2020-04-14 11:31:49 +0300 |
| commit | 54f38fcae536ea202ce7d6a359521492fba30c1f (patch) | |
| tree | dd1a2b36d8de0b13702f2716526ad3b91650e090 /Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/common.rst | |
| parent | 5dfb8db56b273740a76e8687ee7efb4b2c0ec83b (diff) | |
| download | linux-54f38fcae536ea202ce7d6a359521492fba30c1f.tar.xz | |
media: docs: move uAPI book to userspace-api/media
Since 2017, there is an space reserved for userspace API,
created by changeset 1d596dee3862 ("docs: Create a user-space API guide").
As the media subsystem was one of the first subsystems to use
Sphinx, until this patch, we were keeping things on a separate
place.
Let's just use the new location, as having all uAPI altogether
will likely make things easier for developers.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/common.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/common.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..af28ac1bcf88 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/common.rst @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +.. 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 + +.. _common: + +################### +Common API Elements +################### +Programming a V4L2 device consists of these steps: + +- Opening the device + +- Changing device properties, selecting a video and audio input, video + standard, picture brightness a. o. + +- Negotiating a data format + +- Negotiating an input/output method + +- The actual input/output loop + +- Closing the device + +In practice most steps are optional and can be executed out of order. It +depends on the V4L2 device type, you can read about the details in +:ref:`devices`. In this chapter we will discuss the basic concepts +applicable to all devices. + + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + open + querycap + app-pri + video + audio + tuner + standard + dv-timings + control + extended-controls + ext-ctrls-camera + ext-ctrls-flash + ext-ctrls-image-source + ext-ctrls-image-process + ext-ctrls-codec + ext-ctrls-jpeg + ext-ctrls-dv + ext-ctrls-rf-tuner + ext-ctrls-fm-tx + ext-ctrls-fm-rx + ext-ctrls-detect + format + planar-apis + selection-api + crop + streaming-par |