[PATCH v2 2/3] media: Documentation: Add note about UVCH length field

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The documentation currently describes the UVC length field as the "length
of the rest of the block", which can be misleading. The driver limits the
data copied to a maximum of 12 bytes.

This change adds a clarifying sentence to the documentation to make this
restriction explicit.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-uvc.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-uvc.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-uvc.rst
index 784346d14bbdbf28348262084d5b0646d30bd1da..42599875331c0066cf529153caccb731148023b9 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-uvc.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/metafmt-uvc.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ Each individual block contains the following fields:
         them
     * - :cspan:`1` *The rest is an exact copy of the UVC payload header:*
     * - __u8 length;
-      - length of the rest of the block, including this field
+      - length of the rest of the block, including this field. Please note that
+        regardless of the this value, for V4L2_META_FMT_UVC the kernel will
+        never copy more than 2-12 bytes.
     * - __u8 flags;
       - Flags, indicating presence of other standard UVC fields
     * - __u8 buf[];

-- 
2.48.1.711.g2feabab25a-goog





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