From 98ec633972a70cf71d71bc8762804f0af4792d08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Verkuil Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:02:10 -0300 Subject: V4L/DVB (11021): v4l2-device: add a notify callback. Add a notify callback to v4l2_device to let sub-devices notify their parent of special events. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index df0247ed13d..4207590b2ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ usb_device or platform_device. It is rare for dev to be NULL, but it happens with ISA devices or when one device creates multiple PCI devices, thus making it impossible to associate v4l2_dev with a particular parent. +You can also supply a notify() callback that can be called by sub-devices to +notify you of events. Whether you need to set this depends on the sub-device. +Any notifications a sub-device supports must be defined in a header in +include/media/.h. + You unregister with: v4l2_device_unregister(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev); @@ -281,6 +286,11 @@ e.g. AUDIO_CONTROLLER and specify that as the group ID value when calling v4l2_device_call_all(). That ensures that it will only go to the subdev that needs it. +If the sub-device needs to notify its v4l2_device parent of an event, then +it can call v4l2_subdev_notify(sd, notification, arg). This macro checks +whether there is a notify() callback defined and returns -ENODEV if not. +Otherwise the result of the notify() call is returned. + The advantage of using v4l2_subdev is that it is a generic struct and does not contain any knowledge about the underlying hardware. So a driver might contain several subdevs that use an I2C bus, but also a subdev that is -- cgit v1.2.3