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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml index a2474ecb574a..a8cda1acacd9 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ different sizes.</para> <para>To allocate device buffers applications initialize relevant fields of the <structname>v4l2_create_buffers</structname> structure. They set the <structfield>type</structfield> field in the -<structname>v4l2_format</structname> structure, embedded in this +&v4l2-format; structure, embedded in this structure, to the respective stream or buffer type. <structfield>count</structfield> must be set to the number of required buffers. <structfield>memory</structfield> specifies the required I/O method. The @@ -97,7 +97,13 @@ information.</para> <row> <entry>__u32</entry> <entry><structfield>count</structfield></entry> - <entry>The number of buffers requested or granted.</entry> + <entry>The number of buffers requested or granted. If count == 0, then + <constant>VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS</constant> will set <structfield>index</structfield> + to the current number of created buffers, and it will check the validity of + <structfield>memory</structfield> and <structfield>format.type</structfield>. + If those are invalid -1 is returned and errno is set to &EINVAL;, + otherwise <constant>VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS</constant> returns 0. It will + never set errno to &EBUSY; in this particular case.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>__u32</entry> @@ -108,7 +114,7 @@ information.</para> /></entry> </row> <row> - <entry>struct v4l2_format</entry> + <entry>&v4l2-format;</entry> <entry><structfield>format</structfield></entry> <entry>Filled in by the application, preserved by the driver.</entry> </row> |