Rework the documentation to make it easier for the reader to understand
the differences in behavior of this ioctl between MC and non-MC drivers.
Note the addition of the 'video-node-centric' and 'MC-centric' terms to
help understand what the IO_MC capability really means.
Also mention in the beginning that mbus_code is one of the fields that
application should initialize, and add META_OUTPUT as one of the types that
this ioctl supports (that was never added here when the META_OUTPUT buffer
type was added).
Fixes: e5b6b07a1b45 ("media: v4l2: Extend VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT to support MC-centric devices")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Updated version from Mauro's patch. Reworked the numerated list a bit since it
looked a bit odd in places. I think this version looks nice.
Also mention in the beginning that mbus_code is one of the fields that
application should initialize, and add META_OUTPUT as one of the types that
this ioctl supports (that was never added here when the META_OUTPUT buffer
type was added).
Finally changed 'video node centric' to 'video-node-centric', mostly because
'centric' is a suffix and so should be written as 'foo-centric'. And
'video node-centric' looks weird. But 'video-node-centric' and 'MC-centric'
work well IMHO.
---
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
index 9694111772a2..82f3338d8f66 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
@@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ Arguments
Description
===========
-To enumerate image formats applications initialize the ``type`` and
-``index`` field of struct :c:type:`v4l2_fmtdesc` and call
+To enumerate image formats applications initialize the ``type``, ``mbus_code``
+and ``index`` fields of struct :c:type:`v4l2_fmtdesc` and call
the :ref:`VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT` ioctl with a pointer to this structure. Drivers
fill the rest of the structure or return an ``EINVAL`` error code. All
formats are enumerable by beginning at index zero and incrementing by
@@ -48,21 +48,35 @@ one until ``EINVAL`` is returned. If applicable, drivers shall return
formats in preference order, where preferred formats are returned before
(that is, with lower ``index`` value) less-preferred formats.
-If the driver doesn't advertise the ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` :ref:`capability
-<device-capabilities>`, applications shall initialize the ``mbus_code`` field
-to zero and drivers shall ignore the value of the field. Drivers shall
-enumerate all image formats. The enumerated formats may depend on the active
-input or output of the device.
+Depending on the ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` :ref:`capability <device-capabilities>`,
+the ``mbus_code`` field is handled differently:
-If the driver advertises the ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` :ref:`capability
-<device-capabilities>`, applications may initialize the ``mbus_code`` field to
-a valid :ref:`media bus format code <v4l2-mbus-pixelcode>`. If the
-``mbus_code`` field is not zero, drivers shall restrict enumeration to only the
-image formats that can produce (for video output devices) or be produced from
-(for video capture devices) that media bus code. Regardless of the value of
-the ``mbus_code`` field, the enumerated image formats shall not depend on the
-active configuration of the video device or device pipeline. Enumeration shall
-otherwise operate as previously described.
+1) ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` is not set (also known as a 'video-node-centric' driver)
+
+ Applications shall initialize the ``mbus_code`` field to zero and drivers
+ shall ignore the value of the field.
+
+ Drivers shall enumerate all image formats.
+
+ .. note::
+
+ After switching the input or output the list of enumerated image
+ formats may be different.
+
+2) ``V4L2_CAP_IO_MC`` is set (also known as an 'MC-centric' driver)
+
+ If the ``mbus_code`` field is zero, then all image formats
+ shall be enumerated.
+
+ If the ``mbus_code`` field is initialized to a valid (non-zero)
+ :ref:`media bus format code <v4l2-mbus-pixelcode>`, then drivers
+ shall restrict enumeration to only the image formats that can produce
+ (for video output devices) or be produced from (for video capture
+ devices) that media bus code.
+
+ Regardless of the value of the ``mbus_code`` field, the enumerated image
+ formats shall not depend on the active configuration of the video device
+ or device pipeline.
.. tabularcolumns:: |p{4.4cm}|p{4.4cm}|p{8.7cm}|
@@ -87,8 +101,9 @@ otherwise operate as previously described.
``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OUTPUT_MPLANE``,
``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_VIDEO_OVERLAY``,
``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_SDR_CAPTURE``,
- ``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_SDR_OUTPUT`` and
- ``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_META_CAPTURE``.
+ ``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_SDR_OUTPUT``,
+ ``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_META_CAPTURE`` and
+ ``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_META_OUTPUT``.
See :c:type:`v4l2_buf_type`.
* - __u32
- ``flags``
