Re: [PATCH] Documentation/media: Remove incorrect statement

From: Hans Verkuil
Date: Thu Apr 28 2022 - 02:51:10 EST


Hi Dorota,

On 22/04/2022 09:50, Dorota Czaplejewicz wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Dorota Czaplejewicz <dorota.czaplejewicz@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> I tried to debug streaming in libcamera, where I stumbled upon this. I asked around on IRC where I was told that this statement in the documentation is wrong, so I'm submitting a removal.

For future reference: a patch needs to start with a commit message,
followed by your Signed-off-by, then '---' and the patch itself.

I've taking the paragraph above as the commit message, so no need for
you to do anything here.

Regards,

Hans

>
> Cheers,
> Dorota Czaplejewicz
>
> Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst | 3 +--
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst
> index 0bc86f06947b..1a79313a29fa 100644
> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.rst
> @@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ the capture or output process during streaming
> Capture hardware is disabled and no input buffers are filled (if there
> are any empty buffers in the incoming queue) until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON``
> has been called. Output hardware is disabled and no video signal is
> -produced until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON`` has been called. The ioctl will
> -succeed when at least one output buffer is in the incoming queue.
> +produced until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON`` has been called.
>
> Memory-to-memory devices will not start until ``VIDIOC_STREAMON`` has
> been called for both the capture and output stream types.