This changes v4l2_pix_format and v4l2_plane_pix_format sizeimage field description to allow v4l clients to set bigger image size in case of variable length compressed data. Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst | 6 +++++- Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst | 4 +++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst index 5688c816e334..a5cdc4537012 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst @@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ describing all planes of that format. * - __u32 - ``sizeimage`` - - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane. + - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane, + set by the driver. When the image consists of variable length + compressed data this is the number of bytes required by the + codec to support the worst-case compression scenario. Clients + are allowed to set the sizeimage field, but drivers may modify it. * - __u32 - ``bytesperline`` - Distance in bytes between the leftmost pixels in two adjacent diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst index 71eebfc6d853..70e08c58febc 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst @@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ Single-planar format structure - Size in bytes of the buffer to hold a complete image, set by the driver. Usually this is ``bytesperline`` times ``height``. When the image consists of variable length compressed data this is the - maximum number of bytes required to hold an image. + number of bytes required by the codec to support the worst-case + compression scenario. Clients are allowed to set the sizeimage + field, but drivers may modify it. * - __u32 - ``colorspace`` - Image colorspace, from enum :c:type:`v4l2_colorspace`. -- 2.17.1