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V4L/DVB: V4L: Events: Add documentation 

Add documentation on how to use V4L2 events, both for V4L2 drivers and for
V4L2 applications.
Signed-off-by: default avatarSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@maxwell.research.nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Documentation/DocBook/media-entities.tmpl
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<!ENTITY VIDIOC-DBG-G-REGISTER "<link linkend='vidioc-dbg-g-register'><constant>VIDIOC_DBG_G_REGISTER</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-DBG-S-REGISTER "<link linkend='vidioc-dbg-g-register'><constant>VIDIOC_DBG_S_REGISTER</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-DQBUF "<link linkend='vidioc-qbuf'><constant>VIDIOC_DQBUF</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-DQEVENT "<link linkend='vidioc-dqevent'><constant>VIDIOC_DQEVENT</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-ENCODER-CMD "<link linkend='vidioc-encoder-cmd'><constant>VIDIOC_ENCODER_CMD</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-ENUMAUDIO "<link linkend='vidioc-enumaudio'><constant>VIDIOC_ENUMAUDIO</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-ENUMAUDOUT "<link linkend='vidioc-enumaudioout'><constant>VIDIOC_ENUMAUDOUT</constant></link>">
......@@ -60,6 +61,7 @@
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-REQBUFS "<link linkend='vidioc-reqbufs'><constant>VIDIOC_REQBUFS</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-STREAMOFF "<link linkend='vidioc-streamon'><constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-STREAMON "<link linkend='vidioc-streamon'><constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-SUBSCRIBE-EVENT "<link linkend='vidioc-subscribe-event'><constant>VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-S-AUDIO "<link linkend='vidioc-g-audio'><constant>VIDIOC_S_AUDIO</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-S-AUDOUT "<link linkend='vidioc-g-audioout'><constant>VIDIOC_S_AUDOUT</constant></link>">
<!ENTITY VIDIOC-S-CROP "<link linkend='vidioc-g-crop'><constant>VIDIOC_S_CROP</constant></link>">
......@@ -141,6 +143,8 @@
<!ENTITY v4l2-enc-idx "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-enc-idx'>v4l2_enc_idx</link>">
<!ENTITY v4l2-enc-idx-entry "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-enc-idx-entry'>v4l2_enc_idx_entry</link>">
<!ENTITY v4l2-encoder-cmd "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-encoder-cmd'>v4l2_encoder_cmd</link>">
<!ENTITY v4l2-event "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-event'>v4l2_event</link>">
<!ENTITY v4l2-event-subscription "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-event-subscription'>v4l2_event_subscription</link>">
<!ENTITY v4l2-ext-control "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-ext-control'>v4l2_ext_control</link>">
<!ENTITY v4l2-ext-controls "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-ext-controls'>v4l2_ext_controls</link>">
<!ENTITY v4l2-fmtdesc "struct&nbsp;<link linkend='v4l2-fmtdesc'>v4l2_fmtdesc</link>">
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<!ENTITY sub-controls SYSTEM "v4l/controls.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dev-capture SYSTEM "v4l/dev-capture.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dev-codec SYSTEM "v4l/dev-codec.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dev-event SYSTEM "v4l/dev-event.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dev-effect SYSTEM "v4l/dev-effect.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dev-osd SYSTEM "v4l/dev-osd.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dev-output SYSTEM "v4l/dev-output.xml">
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<!ENTITY sub-v4l2grab-c SYSTEM "v4l/v4l2grab.c.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-videodev2-h SYSTEM "v4l/videodev2.h.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-v4l2 SYSTEM "v4l/v4l2.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dqevent SYSTEM "v4l/vidioc-dqevent.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-subscribe-event SYSTEM "v4l/vidioc-subscribe-event.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-intro SYSTEM "dvb/intro.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-frontend SYSTEM "dvb/frontend.xml">
<!ENTITY sub-dvbproperty SYSTEM "dvb/dvbproperty.xml">
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<!ENTITY reqbufs SYSTEM "v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml">
<!ENTITY s-hw-freq-seek SYSTEM "v4l/vidioc-s-hw-freq-seek.xml">
<!ENTITY streamon SYSTEM "v4l/vidioc-streamon.xml">
<!ENTITY dqevent SYSTEM "v4l/vidioc-dqevent.xml">
<!ENTITY subscribe_event SYSTEM "v4l/vidioc-subscribe-event.xml">
Documentation/DocBook/v4l/dev-event.xml 0 → 100644
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<title>Event Interface</title>
<para>The V4L2 event interface provides means for user to get
immediately notified on certain conditions taking place on a device.
This might include start of frame or loss of signal events, for
example.
</para>
<para>To receive events, the events the user is interested in first must
be subscribed using the &VIDIOC-SUBSCRIBE-EVENT; ioctl. Once an event is
subscribed, the events of subscribed types are dequeueable using the
&VIDIOC-DQEVENT; ioctl. Events may be unsubscribed using
VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT ioctl. The special event type V4L2_EVENT_ALL may
be used to unsubscribe all the events the driver supports.</para>
<para>The event subscriptions and event queues are specific to file
handles. Subscribing an event on one file handle does not affect
other file handles.
</para>
<para>The information on dequeueable events is obtained by using select or
poll system calls on video devices. The V4L2 events use POLLPRI events on
poll system call and exceptions on select system call. </para>
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Documentation/DocBook/v4l/v4l2.xml
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<section id="ttx"> &sub-dev-teletext; </section>
<section id="radio"> &sub-dev-radio; </section>
<section id="rds"> &sub-dev-rds; </section>
<section id="event"> &sub-dev-event; </section>
</chapter>
<chapter id="driver">
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&sub-cropcap;
&sub-dbg-g-chip-ident;
&sub-dbg-g-register;
&sub-dqevent;
&sub-encoder-cmd;
&sub-enumaudio;
&sub-enumaudioout;
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&sub-reqbufs;
&sub-s-hw-freq-seek;
&sub-streamon;
&sub-subscribe-event;
<!-- End of ioctls. -->
&sub-mmap;
&sub-munmap;
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<refentry id="vidioc-dqevent">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_DQEVENT</refentrytitle>
&manvol;
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>VIDIOC_DQEVENT</refname>
<refpurpose>Dequeue event</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_event
*<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_DQEVENT</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>Dequeue an event from a video device. No input is required
for this ioctl. All the fields of the &v4l2-event; structure are
filled by the driver. The file handle will also receive exceptions
which the application may get by e.g. using the select system
call.</para>
<table frame="none" pgwide="1" id="v4l2-event">
<title>struct <structname>v4l2_event</structname></title>
<tgroup cols="4">
&cs-str;
<tbody valign="top">
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>type</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>Type of the event.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>union</entry>
<entry><structfield>u</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry></entry>
<entry>__u8</entry>
<entry><structfield>data</structfield>[64]</entry>
<entry>Event data. Defined by the event type. The union
should be used to define easily accessible type for
events.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>pending</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>Number of pending events excluding this one.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>sequence</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>Event sequence number. The sequence number is
incremented for every subscribed event that takes place.
If sequence numbers are not contiguous it means that
events have been lost.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>struct timeval</entry>
<entry><structfield>timestamp</structfield></entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>Event timestamp.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>reserved</structfield>[9]</entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>Reserved for future extensions. Drivers must set
the array to zero.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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<refentry id="vidioc-subscribe-event">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT, VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT</refentrytitle>
&manvol;
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT, VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT</refname>
<refpurpose>Subscribe or unsubscribe event</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_event_subscription
*<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_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT, VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>Subscribe or unsubscribe V4L2 event. Subscribed events are
dequeued by using the &VIDIOC-DQEVENT; ioctl.</para>
<table frame="none" pgwide="1" id="v4l2-event-subscription">
<title>struct <structname>v4l2_event_subscription</structname></title>
<tgroup cols="3">
&cs-str;
<tbody valign="top">
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>type</structfield></entry>
<entry>Type of the event.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>reserved</structfield>[7]</entry>
<entry>Reserved for future extensions. Drivers and applications
must set the array to zero.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<table frame="none" pgwide="1" id="event-type">
<title>Event Types</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
&cs-def;
<tbody valign="top">
<row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_EVENT_ALL</constant></entry>
<entry>0</entry>
<entry>All events. V4L2_EVENT_ALL is valid only for
VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT for unsubscribing all events at once.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START</constant></entry>
<entry>0x08000000</entry>
<entry>Base event number for driver-private events.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
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...
}
V4L2 events
-----------
The V4L2 events provide a generic way to pass events to user space.
The driver must use v4l2_fh to be able to support V4L2 events.
Useful functions:
- v4l2_event_alloc()
To use events, the driver must allocate events for the file handle. By
calling the function more than once, the driver may assure that at least n
events in total have been allocated. The function may not be called in
atomic context.
- v4l2_event_queue()
Queue events to video device. The driver's only responsibility is to fill
in the type and the data fields. The other fields will be filled in by
V4L2.
- v4l2_event_subscribe()
The video_device->ioctl_ops->vidioc_subscribe_event must check the driver
is able to produce events with specified event id. Then it calls
v4l2_event_subscribe() to subscribe the event.
- v4l2_event_unsubscribe()
vidioc_unsubscribe_event in struct v4l2_ioctl_ops. A driver may use
v4l2_event_unsubscribe() directly unless it wants to be involved in
unsubscription process.
The special type V4L2_EVENT_ALL may be used to unsubscribe all events. The
drivers may want to handle this in a special way.
- v4l2_event_pending()
Returns the number of pending events. Useful when implementing poll.
Drivers do not initialise events directly. The events are initialised
through v4l2_fh_init() if video_device->ioctl_ops->vidioc_subscribe_event is
non-NULL. This *MUST* be performed in the driver's
v4l2_file_operations->open() handler.
Events are delivered to user space through the poll system call. The driver
can use v4l2_fh->events->wait wait_queue_head_t as the argument for
poll_wait().
There are standard and private events. New standard events must use the
smallest available event type. The drivers must allocate their events from
their own class starting from class base. Class base is
V4L2_EVENT_PRIVATE_START + n * 1000 where n is the lowest available number.
The first event type in the class is reserved for future use, so the first
available event type is 'class base + 1'.
An example on how the V4L2 events may be used can be found in the OMAP
3 ISP driver available at <URL:http://gitorious.org/omap3camera> as of
writing this.
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