The arguments for this function are pointers. Make it clear at its documentation. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hans, Feel free to pick this patch on your tree, if you're ok with it. Your approach for using v4l_queryctl() sounds better, as it covers private controls too. So I'm not submitting the other patches that used to be in this series. Yet, I think it doesn't hurt to make the documentation clearer about the pointers. include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h | 16 ++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h b/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h index 2d2aed56922f..dacfe54057f8 100644 --- a/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h +++ b/include/media/v4l2-ctrls.h @@ -340,17 +340,17 @@ struct v4l2_ctrl_config { * v4l2_ctrl_fill - Fill in the control fields based on the control ID. * * @id: ID of the control - * @name: name of the control - * @type: type of the control - * @min: minimum value for the control - * @max: maximum value for the control - * @step: control step - * @def: default value for the control - * @flags: flags to be used on the control + * @name: pointer to be filled with a string with the name of the control + * @type: pointer for storing the type of the control + * @min: pointer for storing the minimum value for the control + * @max: pointer for storing the maximum value for the control + * @step: pointer for storing the control step + * @def: pointer for storing the default value for the control + * @flags: pointer for storing the flags to be used on the control * * This works for all standard V4L2 controls. * For non-standard controls it will only fill in the given arguments - * and @name will be %NULL. + * and @name content will be set to %NULL. * * This function will overwrite the contents of @name, @type and @flags. * The contents of @min, @max, @step and @def may be modified depending on -- 2.13.3