Commit 071dedfe authored by Mauro Carvalho Chehab's avatar Mauro Carvalho Chehab

[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: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
parent 53ce5239
......@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Input and output devices support this I/O method when the
:ref:`v4l2_capability <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
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......@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ Input and output devices support this I/O method when the
:ref:`v4l2_capability <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
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