[PATCH v2 1/3] media: vb2-core: vb2_buffer_done: consolidate docs

From: Luca Ceresoli
Date: Thu Mar 08 2018 - 07:27:00 EST


Documentation about what start_streaming() should do on failure are
scattered in two places and mostly duplicated, so consolidate them in
one of the two places.

Signed-off-by: Luca Ceresoli <luca@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Pawel Osciak <pawel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
Changes v1 -> v2: none.
---
include/media/videobuf2-core.h | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/media/videobuf2-core.h b/include/media/videobuf2-core.h
index 5b6c541e4e1b..f1a479060f9e 100644
--- a/include/media/videobuf2-core.h
+++ b/include/media/videobuf2-core.h
@@ -602,9 +602,7 @@ void *vb2_plane_cookie(struct vb2_buffer *vb, unsigned int plane_no);
* Either %VB2_BUF_STATE_DONE if the operation finished
* successfully, %VB2_BUF_STATE_ERROR if the operation finished
* with an error or %VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED if the driver wants to
- * requeue buffers. If start_streaming fails then it should return
- * buffers with state %VB2_BUF_STATE_QUEUED to put them back into
- * the queue.
+ * requeue buffers.
*
* This function should be called by the driver after a hardware operation on
* a buffer is finished and the buffer may be returned to userspace. The driver
@@ -613,9 +611,9 @@ void *vb2_plane_cookie(struct vb2_buffer *vb, unsigned int plane_no);
* to the driver by &vb2_ops->buf_queue can be passed to this function.
*
* While streaming a buffer can only be returned in state DONE or ERROR.
- * The start_streaming op can also return them in case the DMA engine cannot
- * be started for some reason. In that case the buffers should be returned with
- * state QUEUED.
+ * The &vb2_ops->start_streaming op can also return them in case the DMA engine
+ * cannot be started for some reason. In that case the buffers should be
+ * returned with state QUEUED to put them back into the queue.
*/
void vb2_buffer_done(struct vb2_buffer *vb, enum vb2_buffer_state state);

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