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[media] Docbook: media: Document changes on struct v4l2_ext_controls
authorRicardo Ribalda <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:10:32 +0000 (08:10 -0200)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Tue, 17 Nov 2015 16:48:14 +0000 (14:48 -0200)
Vidioc-g-ext-ctrls can now be used to get the default value of the
controls.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml

index 7e61643358de034df628a0106e84e1e222315566..42e626d6c936234ad469b5b51dfef401b232d3d3 100644 (file)
@@ -151,6 +151,16 @@ Rubli, Andy Walls, Muralidharan Karicheri, Mauro Carvalho Chehab,
 structs, ioctls) must be noted in more detail in the history chapter
 (compat.xml), along with the possible impact on existing drivers and
 applications. -->
+      <revision>
+       <revnumber>4.5</revnumber>
+       <date>2015-10-29</date>
+       <authorinitials>rr</authorinitials>
+       <revremark>Extend vidioc-g-ext-ctrls;. Replace ctrl_class with a new
+union with ctrl_class and which. Which is used to select the current value of
+the control or the default value.
+       </revremark>
+      </revision>
+
       <revision>
        <revnumber>4.4</revnumber>
        <date>2015-05-26</date>
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@@ -223,7 +223,12 @@ Valid if <constant>V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_HAS_PAYLOAD</constant> is set for this control
       <tgroup cols="3">
        &cs-str;
        <tbody valign="top">
+        <row>
+           <entry>union</entry>
+           <entry>(anonymous)</entry>
+         </row>
          <row>
+           <entry></entry>
            <entry>__u32</entry>
            <entry><structfield>ctrl_class</structfield></entry>
            <entry>The control class to which all controls belong, see
@@ -233,6 +238,23 @@ belong to any control class. Whether drivers support this can be tested by setti
 <structfield>ctrl_class</structfield> to 0 and calling <constant>VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS</constant>
 with a <structfield>count</structfield> of 0. If that succeeds, then the driver
 supports this feature.</entry>
+         </row>
+         <row>
+           <entry></entry>
+           <entry>__u32</entry>
+           <entry><structfield>which</structfield></entry>
+           <entry><para>Which value of the control to get/set/try. <constant>V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_CUR_VAL</constant>
+will return the current value of the control and <constant>V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_DEF_VAL</constant> will
+return the default value of the control. Please note that you can only get the default value of the
+control, you cannot set or try it.</para>
+<para>For backwards compatibility you can also use a control class here (see
+<xref linkend="ctrl-class" />). In that case all controls have to belong to that
+control class. This usage is deprecated, instead just use <constant>V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_CUR_VAL</constant>.
+There are some very old drivers that do not yet support <constant>V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_CUR_VAL</constant>
+and that require a control class here. You can test for such drivers by setting ctrl_class to
+<constant>V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_CUR_VAL</constant> and calling VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS with a count of 0.
+If that fails, then the driver does not support <constant>V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_CUR_VAL</constant>.</para>
+</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>__u32</entry>