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| author | Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> | 2010-03-03 12:49:38 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2011-03-21 20:32:42 -0300 |
| commit | 02adb1cc765b8c29dc83c6602bda19003cce62f1 (patch) | |
| tree | 067fd5a73251f6dc33567926c409a0b1070710ab /Documentation/video4linux | |
| parent | ea8aa4349e11c62242a8908fc172de27d7a151d7 (diff) | |
[media] v4l: subdev: Events support
Provide v4l2_subdevs with v4l2_event support. Subdev drivers only need very
little to support events.
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: David Cohen <dacohen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/video4linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index 1feecfc59c3d..eb8479565dc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -350,6 +350,24 @@ VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS controls can be also be accessed through one (or several) V4L2 device nodes. +VIDIOC_DQEVENT +VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT +VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT + + The events ioctls are identical to the ones defined in V4L2. They + behave identically, with the only exception that they deal only with + events generated by the sub-device. Depending on the driver, those + events can also be reported by one (or several) V4L2 device nodes. + + Sub-device drivers that want to use events need to set the + V4L2_SUBDEV_USES_EVENTS v4l2_subdev::flags and initialize + v4l2_subdev::nevents to events queue depth before registering the + sub-device. After registration events can be queued as usual on the + v4l2_subdev::devnode device node. + + To properly support events, the poll() file operation is also + implemented. + I2C sub-device drivers ---------------------- |