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author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-03-13 18:06:14 -0300 |
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committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2009-03-13 18:06:14 -0300 |
commit | 9840199e825a71000f4d87e61380867fe3dc7f80 (patch) | |
tree | aaee9b6e6b95130e5409343389d9f65dd9867094 /linux/Documentation/video4linux | |
parent | f689c3bd615386cf4c5238d1b4de1aaf4b58ce69 (diff) | |
parent | c3ce9d2f22c72aa484146a24d87be98d1a29ab9f (diff) | |
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merge: http://linuxtv.org/hg/~hgoede/libv4l
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux/Documentation/video4linux')
-rw-r--r-- | linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | 24 |
3 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv index 1da2c6271..e17750473 100644 --- a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv +++ b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.bttv @@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ 134 -> Adlink RTV24 135 -> DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite [18ac:d500] 136 -> Acorp Y878F [9511:1540] -137 -> Conceptronic CTVFMi v2 +137 -> Conceptronic CTVFMi v2 [036e:109e] 138 -> Prolink Pixelview PV-BT878P+ (Rev.2E) 139 -> Prolink PixelView PlayTV MPEG2 PV-M4900 140 -> Osprey 440 [0070:ff07] diff --git a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 index 0d08f1edc..71e9db0b2 100644 --- a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 +++ b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx88 @@ -77,3 +77,4 @@ 76 -> SATTRADE ST4200 DVB-S/S2 [b200:4200] 77 -> TBS 8910 DVB-S [8910:8888] 78 -> Prof 6200 DVB-S [b022:3022] + 79 -> Terratec Cinergy HT PCI MKII [153b:1177] diff --git a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index accc376e9..df0247ed1 100644 --- a/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/linux/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ NULL, then you *must* setup v4l2_dev->name before calling v4l2_device_register. The first 'dev' argument is normally the struct device pointer of a pci_dev, usb_device or platform_device. It is rare for dev to be NULL, but it happens -with ISA devices, for example. +with ISA devices or when one device creates multiple PCI devices, thus making +it impossible to associate v4l2_dev with a particular parent. You unregister with: @@ -359,8 +360,8 @@ This loads the given module (can be NULL if no module needs to be loaded) and calls i2c_new_device() with the given i2c_adapter and chip/address arguments. If all goes well, then it registers the subdev with the v4l2_device. It gets the v4l2_device by calling i2c_get_adapdata(adapter), so you should make sure -that adapdata is set to v4l2_device when you setup the i2c_adapter in your -driver. +to call i2c_set_adapdata(adapter, v4l2_device) when you setup the i2c_adapter +in your driver. You can also use v4l2_i2c_new_probed_subdev() which is very similar to v4l2_i2c_new_subdev(), except that it has an array of possible I2C addresses @@ -368,6 +369,14 @@ that it should probe. Internally it calls i2c_new_probed_device(). Both functions return NULL if something went wrong. +Note that the chipid you pass to v4l2_i2c_new_(probed_)subdev() is usually +the same as the module name. It allows you to specify a chip variant, e.g. +"saa7114" or "saa7115". In general though the i2c driver autodetects this. +The use of chipid is something that needs to be looked at more closely at a +later date. It differs between i2c drivers and as such can be confusing. +To see which chip variants are supported you can look in the i2c driver code +for the i2c_device_id table. This lists all the possibilities. + struct video_device ------------------- @@ -406,6 +415,15 @@ You should also set these fields: - ioctl_ops: if you use the v4l2_ioctl_ops to simplify ioctl maintenance (highly recommended to use this and it might become compulsory in the future!), then set this to your v4l2_ioctl_ops struct. +- parent: you only set this if v4l2_device was registered with NULL as + the parent device struct. This only happens in cases where one hardware + device has multiple PCI devices that all share the same v4l2_device core. + + The cx88 driver is an example of this: one core v4l2_device struct, but + it is used by both an raw video PCI device (cx8800) and a MPEG PCI device + (cx8802). Since the v4l2_device cannot be associated with a particular + PCI device it is setup without a parent device. But when the struct + video_device is setup you do know which parent PCI device to use. If you use v4l2_ioctl_ops, then you should set either .unlocked_ioctl or .ioctl to video_ioctl2 in your v4l2_file_operations struct. |