[media] v4l: events: Define V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_SYNC

Define a frame sync event to tell user space when the reception of a frame
starts.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.xml
index 5200b6874654d0816b35fa0f260d49720ebd25af..e8714aa1643343de973e32f5abfa5e331b26bb7d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.xml
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@
            <entry>Event data for event V4L2_EVENT_CTRL.
             </entry>
          </row>
+         <row>
+           <entry></entry>
+           <entry>&v4l2-event-frame-sync;</entry>
+            <entry><structfield>frame</structfield></entry>
+           <entry>Event data for event V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_SYNC.</entry>
+         </row>
          <row>
            <entry></entry>
            <entry>__u8</entry>
@@ -220,6 +226,22 @@
       </tgroup>
     </table>
 
+    <table frame="none" pgwide="1" id="v4l2-event-frame-sync">
+      <title>struct <structname>v4l2_event_frame_sync</structname></title>
+      <tgroup cols="3">
+       &cs-str;
+       <tbody valign="top">
+         <row>
+           <entry>__u32</entry>
+           <entry><structfield>frame_sequence</structfield></entry>
+           <entry>
+             The sequence number of the frame being received.
+           </entry>
+         </row>
+       </tbody>
+      </tgroup>
+    </table>
+
     <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="changes-flags">
       <title>Changes</title>
       <tgroup cols="3">

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subscribe-event.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subscribe-event.xml
index 275be9689d88a0bc7c9263d0b667ee907e6514d7..5c70b616d8185c0645044b0e270398932a0d28c9 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subscribe-event.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subscribe-event.xml
@@ -138,6 +138,22 @@
                field of the oldest event.</para>
            </entry>
          </row>
+         <row>
+           <entry><constant>V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_SYNC</constant></entry>
+           <entry>4</entry>
+           <entry>
+             <para>Triggered immediately when the reception of a
+             frame has begun. This event has a
+             &v4l2-event-frame-sync; associated with it.</para>
+
+             <para>If the hardware needs to be stopped in the case of a
+             buffer underrun it might not be able to generate this event.
+             In such cases the <structfield>frame_sequence</structfield>
+             field in &v4l2-event-frame-sync; will not be incremented. This
+             causes two consecutive frame sequence numbers to have n times
+             frame interval in between them.</para>
+           </entry>
+         </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START</constant></entry>
            <entry>0x08000000</entry>

diff --git a/include/linux/videodev2.h b/include/linux/videodev2.h
index fca24cc504367ea6218c6d6c01c03ccf497ffb38..a5359c6e7577e030dec279bd3e74fd124d1799aa 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/videodev2.h
+++ b/include/linux/videodev2.h
@@ -2006,6 +2006,7 @@ struct v4l2_streamparm {
 #define V4L2_EVENT_VSYNC                       1
 #define V4L2_EVENT_EOS                         2
 #define V4L2_EVENT_CTRL                                3
+#define V4L2_EVENT_FRAME_SYNC                  4
 #define V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START               0x08000000
 
 /* Payload for V4L2_EVENT_VSYNC */
@@ -2032,12 +2033,17 @@ struct v4l2_event_ctrl {
        __s32 default_value;
 };
 
+struct v4l2_event_frame_sync {
+       __u32 frame_sequence;
+};
+
 struct v4l2_event {
        __u32                           type;
        union {
-               struct v4l2_event_vsync vsync;
-               struct v4l2_event_ctrl  ctrl;
-               __u8                    data[64];
+               struct v4l2_event_vsync         vsync;
+               struct v4l2_event_ctrl          ctrl;
+               struct v4l2_event_frame_sync    frame_sync;
+               __u8                            data[64];
        } u;
        __u32                           pending;
        __u32                           sequence;