The reference_mode derived syntax is part of the compressed headers and
should have been moved into the corresponding control structure. Document
this mistake. The value can be set to 0 if the driver does not require
compressed headers information.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
index cc080c4257d01..ec48e4acb5ece 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
@@ -1692,7 +1692,12 @@ See section '7.3.1 Tx mode semantics' of the :ref:`vp9` specification for more d
* - __u8
- ``reference_mode``
- Specifies the type of inter prediction to be used. See
- :ref:`Reference Mode<vp9_reference_mode>` for more details.
+ :ref:`Reference Mode<vp9_reference_mode>` for more details. Note that
+ this is derived as part of the compressed header parsing process and
+ for this reason should have bee part of
+ :c:type: `v4l2_ctrl_vp9_compressed_hdr` optional control. It is safe to
+ set this value to zero if the driver does not require compressed
+ headers.
* - __u8
- ``reserved[7]``
- Applications and drivers must set this to zero.
--
2.35.1
