From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 18:47:00 +0000 (-0300) Subject: [media] doc-rst: mention the memory type to be set for all streaming I/O X-Git-Tag: v4.8-rc1~131^2^2~175 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=071dedfead28ff4cd2d2faf56054ed1c46584ae1;p=karo-tx-linux.git [media] doc-rst: mention the memory type to be set for all streaming I/O Changeset 8c9f46095176 ("[media] DocBook: mention the memory type to be set for all streaming I/O") updated the media DocBook to mention the need of filling the memory types. We need to keep the ReST doc updated to such change. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/mmap.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/mmap.rst index 2171b18c1aab..f7fe26e7ca43 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/mmap.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/mmap.rst @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Input and output devices support this I/O method when the :ref:`v4l2_capability ` returned by the :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` ioctl is set. There are two streaming methods, to determine if the memory mapping flavor is -supported applications must call the -:ref:`VIDIOC_REQBUFS` ioctl. +supported applications must call the :ref:`VIDIOC_REQBUFS` ioctl +with the memory type set to ``V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP``. Streaming is an I/O method where only pointers to buffers are exchanged between application and driver, the data itself is not copied. Memory diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/userp.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/userp.rst index 0ecf7a13a7af..2f0002bfbc3f 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/userp.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/userp.rst @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Input and output devices support this I/O method when the :ref:`v4l2_capability ` returned by the :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` ioctl is set. If the particular user pointer method (not only memory mapping) is supported -must be determined by calling the -:ref:`VIDIOC_REQBUFS` ioctl. +must be determined by calling the :ref:`VIDIOC_REQBUFS` ioctl +with the memory type set to ``V4L2_MEMORY_USERPTR``. This I/O method combines advantages of the read/write and memory mapping methods. Buffers (planes) are allocated by the application itself, and