linux/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-querybuf.xml
Hans Verkuil 995f5fefb0 V4L/DVB: media-spec: Fix documentation mistakes regarding I/O streaming
The media spec contains several errors in the description of the
I/O streaming ioctls, in particular with respect to the userptr
I/O method.

The most important change is that you really need to set count
and index in v4l2_requestbuffer and v4l2_buffer when dealing with
user pointer streaming.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-02-26 15:11:05 -03:00

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<refentry id="vidioc-querybuf">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</refentrytitle>
&manvol;
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</refname>
<refpurpose>Query the status of a buffer</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>struct v4l2_buffer *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Arguments</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>fd</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>&fd;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>This ioctl is part of the <link linkend="mmap">memory
mapping</link> I/O method. It can be used to query the status of a
buffer at any time after buffers have been allocated with the
&VIDIOC-REQBUFS; ioctl.</para>
<para>Applications set the <structfield>type</structfield> field
of a &v4l2-buffer; to the same buffer type as was previously used with
&v4l2-format; <structfield>type</structfield> and &v4l2-requestbuffers;
<structfield>type</structfield>, and the <structfield>index</structfield>
field. Valid index numbers range from zero
to the number of buffers allocated with &VIDIOC-REQBUFS;
(&v4l2-requestbuffers; <structfield>count</structfield>) minus one.
The <structfield>reserved</structfield> field should to set to 0.
After calling <constant>VIDIOC_QUERYBUF</constant> with a pointer to
this structure drivers return an error code or fill the rest of
the structure.</para>
<para>In the <structfield>flags</structfield> field the
<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_MAPPED</constant>,
<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_QUEUED</constant> and
<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_DONE</constant> flags will be valid. The
<structfield>memory</structfield> field will be set to the current
I/O method, the <structfield>m.offset</structfield>
contains the offset of the buffer from the start of the device memory,
the <structfield>length</structfield> field its size. The driver may
or may not set the remaining fields and flags, they are meaningless in
this context.</para>
<para>The <structname>v4l2_buffer</structname> structure is
specified in <xref linkend="buffer" />.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
&return-value;
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>EINVAL</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>The buffer <structfield>type</structfield> is not
supported, or the <structfield>index</structfield> is out of bounds.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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