Commit e2543658 authored by Hans Verkuil's avatar Hans Verkuil Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

[media] DocBook v4l2: update the G/S_EDID documentation

Document that it is now possible to call G/S_EDID from video nodes, not
just sub-device nodes. Add a note that -EINVAL will be returned if
the pad does not support EDIDs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
parent b09dfac8
......@@ -607,6 +607,7 @@ and discussions on the V4L mailing list.</revremark>
&sub-g-crop;
&sub-g-ctrl;
&sub-g-dv-timings;
&sub-g-edid;
&sub-g-enc-index;
&sub-g-ext-ctrls;
&sub-g-fbuf;
......@@ -638,7 +639,6 @@ and discussions on the V4L mailing list.</revremark>
&sub-subdev-enum-frame-size;
&sub-subdev-enum-mbus-code;
&sub-subdev-g-crop;
&sub-subdev-g-edid;
&sub-subdev-g-fmt;
&sub-subdev-g-frame-interval;
&sub-subdev-g-selection;
......
<refentry id="vidioc-subdev-g-edid">
<refentry id="vidioc-g-edid">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_EDID, VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_EDID</refentrytitle>
<refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_G_EDID, VIDIOC_S_EDID</refentrytitle>
&manvol;
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_EDID</refname>
<refname>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_EDID</refname>
<refname>VIDIOC_G_EDID</refname>
<refname>VIDIOC_S_EDID</refname>
<refpurpose>Get or set the EDID of a video receiver/transmitter</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
......@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>struct v4l2_subdev_edid *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>struct v4l2_edid *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsis>
......@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const struct v4l2_subdev_edid *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>const struct v4l2_edid *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
......@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_EDID, VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_EDID</para>
<para>VIDIOC_G_EDID, VIDIOC_S_EDID</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
......@@ -56,12 +56,20 @@
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>These ioctls can be used to get or set an EDID associated with an input pad
from a receiver or an output pad of a transmitter subdevice.</para>
<para>These ioctls can be used to get or set an EDID associated with an input
from a receiver or an output of a transmitter device. They can be
used with subdevice nodes (/dev/v4l-subdevX) or with video nodes (/dev/videoX).</para>
<para>When used with video nodes the <structfield>pad</structfield> field represents the
input (for video capture devices) or output (for video output devices) index as
is returned by &VIDIOC-ENUMINPUT; and &VIDIOC-ENUMOUTPUT; respectively. When used
with subdevice nodes the <structfield>pad</structfield> field represents the
input or output pad of the subdevice. If there is no EDID support for the given
<structfield>pad</structfield> value, then the &EINVAL; will be returned.</para>
<para>To get the EDID data the application has to fill in the <structfield>pad</structfield>,
<structfield>start_block</structfield>, <structfield>blocks</structfield> and <structfield>edid</structfield>
fields and call <constant>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_EDID</constant>. The current EDID from block
fields and call <constant>VIDIOC_G_EDID</constant>. The current EDID from block
<structfield>start_block</structfield> and of size <structfield>blocks</structfield>
will be placed in the memory <structfield>edid</structfield> points to. The <structfield>edid</structfield>
pointer must point to memory at least <structfield>blocks</structfield>&nbsp;*&nbsp;128 bytes
......@@ -91,15 +99,17 @@
data in some way. In any case, the end result is the same: the EDID is no longer available.
</para>
<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-subdev-edid">
<title>struct <structname>v4l2_subdev_edid</structname></title>
<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-edid">
<title>struct <structname>v4l2_edid</structname></title>
<tgroup cols="3">
&cs-str;
<tbody valign="top">
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>pad</structfield></entry>
<entry>Pad for which to get/set the EDID blocks.</entry>
<entry>Pad for which to get/set the EDID blocks. When used with a video device
node the pad represents the input or output index as returned by
&VIDIOC-ENUMINPUT; and &VIDIOC-ENUMOUTPUT; respectively.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
......
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