The struct v4l2_capability card field stores the device name. That name can be hardcoded in drivers, or be retrieved directly from the device. The later is very common with USB devices. As several devices already report names that include non-ASCII characters, update the field description to use UTF-8. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml index 4c70215..d5a3c97 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ make sure the strings are properly NUL-terminated.</para></entry> <row> <entry>__u8</entry> <entry><structfield>card</structfield>[32]</entry> - <entry>Name of the device, a NUL-terminated ASCII string. + <entry>Name of the device, a NUL-terminated UTF-8 string. For example: "Yoyodyne TV/FM". One driver may support different brands or models of video hardware. This information is intended for users, for example in a menu of available devices. Since multiple TV cards of -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
