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<refentry id="vidioc-querybuf">
  <refmeta>
    <refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</refentrytitle>
    &manvol;
  </refmeta>

  <refnamediv>
    <refname>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</refname>
    <refpurpose>Query the status of a buffer</refpurpose>
  </refnamediv>

  <refsynopsisdiv>
    <funcsynopsis>
      <funcprototype>
	<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
	<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
	<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
	<paramdef>struct v4l2_buffer *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
      </funcprototype>
    </funcsynopsis>
  </refsynopsisdiv>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Arguments</title>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><parameter>fd</parameter></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>&fd;</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para></para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    <title>Description</title>

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    <para>This ioctl is part of the <link linkend="mmap">streaming
</link> I/O method. It can be used to query the status of a
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buffer at any time after buffers have been allocated with the
&VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl.</para>

    <para>Applications set the <structfield>type</structfield> field
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    of a &v4l2-buffer; to the same buffer type as was previously used with
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&v4l2-format; <structfield>type</structfield> and &v4l2-requestbuffers;
<structfield>type</structfield>, and the <structfield>index</structfield>
    field. Valid index numbers range from zero
to the number of buffers allocated with &VIDIOC-REQBUFS;
    (&v4l2-requestbuffers; <structfield>count</structfield>) minus one.
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The <structfield>reserved</structfield> field should to set to 0.
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When using the <link linkend="planar-apis">multi-planar API</link>, the
<structfield>m.planes</structfield> field must contain a userspace pointer to an
array of &v4l2-plane; and the <structfield>length</structfield> field has
to be set to the number of elements in that array.
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After calling <constant>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</constant> with a pointer to
    this structure drivers return an error code or fill the rest of
the structure.</para>

    <para>In the <structfield>flags</structfield> field the
<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_MAPPED</constant>,
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<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_PREPARED</constant>,
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<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_QUEUED</constant> and
<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_DONE</constant> flags will be valid. The
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<structfield>memory</structfield> field will be set to the current
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I/O method. For the single-planar API, the <structfield>m.offset</structfield>
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contains the offset of the buffer from the start of the device memory,
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the <structfield>length</structfield> field its size. For the multi-planar API,
fields <structfield>m.mem_offset</structfield> and
<structfield>length</structfield> in the <structfield>m.planes</structfield>
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array elements will be used instead and the <structfield>length</structfield>
field of &v4l2-buffer; is set to the number of filled-in array elements.
The driver may or may not set the remaining fields and flags, they are
meaningless in this context.</para>
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    <para>The <structname>v4l2_buffer</structname> structure is
    specified in <xref linkend="buffer" />.</para>
  </refsect1>

  <refsect1>
    &return-value;

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
	<term><errorcode>EINVAL</errorcode></term>
	<listitem>
	  <para>The buffer <structfield>type</structfield> is not
supported, or the <structfield>index</structfield> is out of bounds.</para>
	</listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
</refentry>