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-rw-r--r--Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst7
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
index cc080c4257d0..c6ef05e0d3a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
@@ -1692,7 +1692,12 @@ See section '7.3.1 Tx mode semantics' of the :ref:`vp9` specification for more d
* - __u8
- ``reference_mode``
- Specifies the type of inter prediction to be used. See
- :ref:`Reference Mode<vp9_reference_mode>` for more details.
+ :ref:`Reference Mode<vp9_reference_mode>` for more details. Note that
+ this is derived as part of the compressed header parsing process and
+ for this reason should have been part of
+ :c:type: `v4l2_ctrl_vp9_compressed_hdr` optional control. It is safe to
+ set this value to zero if the driver does not require compressed
+ headers.
* - __u8
- ``reserved[7]``
- Applications and drivers must set this to zero.