From 02adb1cc765b8c29dc83c6602bda19003cce62f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sakari Ailus Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:49:38 -0300 Subject: [media] v4l: subdev: Events support Provide v4l2_subdevs with v4l2_event support. Subdev drivers only need very little to support events. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus Signed-off-by: David Cohen Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index 1feecfc59c3..eb8479565dc 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -350,6 +350,24 @@ VIDIOC_TRY_EXT_CTRLS controls can be also be accessed through one (or several) V4L2 device nodes. +VIDIOC_DQEVENT +VIDIOC_SUBSCRIBE_EVENT +VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT + + The events ioctls are identical to the ones defined in V4L2. They + behave identically, with the only exception that they deal only with + events generated by the sub-device. Depending on the driver, those + events can also be reported by one (or several) V4L2 device nodes. + + Sub-device drivers that want to use events need to set the + V4L2_SUBDEV_USES_EVENTS v4l2_subdev::flags and initialize + v4l2_subdev::nevents to events queue depth before registering the + sub-device. After registration events can be queued as usual on the + v4l2_subdev::devnode device node. + + To properly support events, the poll() file operation is also + implemented. + I2C sub-device drivers ---------------------- -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258