Commit 6bd4dd27 authored by Hans Verkuil's avatar Hans Verkuil Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

[media] DocBook: improve STREAMON/OFF documentation

Specify that STREAMON/OFF should return 0 if the stream is already
started/stopped.
The spec never specified what the correct behavior is. This ambiguity
was resolved during the 2012 Media Workshop.
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
parent 8e19b347
......@@ -74,7 +74,12 @@ not transmitted yet. I/O returns to the same state as after calling
stream type. This is the same as &v4l2-requestbuffers;
<structfield>type</structfield>.</para>
<para>Note applications can be preempted for unknown periods right
<para>If <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> is called when streaming
is already in progress, or if <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant> is called
when streaming is already stopped, then the ioctl does nothing and 0 is
returned.</para>
<para>Note that applications can be preempted for unknown periods right
before or after the <constant>VIDIOC_STREAMON</constant> or
<constant>VIDIOC_STREAMOFF</constant> calls, there is no notion of
starting or stopping "now". Buffer timestamps can be used to
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