On Mon, 2017-05-29 at 15:37 +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 05/25/2017 02:29 AM, Steve Longerbeam wrote:
> > From: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > - renamed MEDIA_ENT_F_MUX to MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_MUX
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Steve Longerbeam <steve_longerbeam@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> > include/uapi/linux/media.h | 6 ++++++
> > 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
> > index 2a5164a..47ee003 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/mediactl/media-types.rst
> > @@ -299,6 +299,28 @@ Types and flags used to represent the media graph elements
> > received on its sink pad and outputs the statistics data on
> > its source pad.
> >
> > + - .. row 29
> > +
> > + .. _MEDIA-ENT-F-VID-MUX:
> > +
> > + - ``MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_MUX``
> > +
> > + - Video multiplexer. An entity capable of multiplexing must have at
> > + least two sink pads and one source pad, and must pass the video
> > + frame(s) received from the active sink pad to the source pad. Video
> > + frame(s) from the inactive sink pads are discarded.
> > +
> > + - .. row 30
> > +
> > + .. _MEDIA-ENT-F-VID-IF-BRIDGE:
> > +
> > + - ``MEDIA_ENT_F_VID_IF_BRIDGE``
> > +
> > + - Video interface bridge. A video interface bridge entity must have at
> > + least one sink pad and one source pad. It receives video frame(s) on
> > + its sink pad in one bus format (HDMI, eDP, MIPI CSI-2, ...) and
> > + converts them and outputs them on its source pad in another bus format
> > + (eDP, MIPI CSI-2, parallel, ...).
>
> I'm unhappy with the term 'bus format'. It's too close to 'mediabus format'.
> How about calling it "bus protocol"?
How about:
"It receives video frames on its sink pad from an input video bus
of one type (HDMI, eDP, MIPI CSI-2, ...), and outputs them on its
source pad to an output video bus of another type (eDP, MIPI
CSI-2, parallel, ...)."
regards
Philipp
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