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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-05-31 16:27:44 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-07-27 17:52:05 -0300
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parent04893043ae9ea8aa82b712491ed25ba6c4ffbca3 (diff)
[media] DocBook: Move all media docbook stuff into its own directory
This patch addresses several issues pointed by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> at changeset ece722c: - In the generated index.html file, "media" is listed first, but it should be listed in alphabetical order, not first. - The generated files are (hidden) in .tmpmedia/ - The link from the top-level index.html file to "media" is to media/index.html, but the file is actually in .tmpmedia/media/index.html - Please build docs with and without using "O=builddir" and test that. - Would it be possible for media to have its own Makefile instead of merging into this one? Due to the way cleandocs target works, I had to rename the media DocBook to media_api, otherwise cleandocs would remove the /media directory. Thanks-to: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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+ <title>Event Interface</title>
+
+ <para>The V4L2 event interface provides means for user to get
+ immediately notified on certain conditions taking place on a device.
+ This might include start of frame or loss of signal events, for
+ example.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To receive events, the events the user is interested in first must
+ be subscribed using the &VIDIOC-SUBSCRIBE-EVENT; ioctl. Once an event is
+ subscribed, the events of subscribed types are dequeueable using the
+ &VIDIOC-DQEVENT; ioctl. Events may be unsubscribed using
+ VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT ioctl. The special event type V4L2_EVENT_ALL may
+ be used to unsubscribe all the events the driver supports.</para>
+
+ <para>The event subscriptions and event queues are specific to file
+ handles. Subscribing an event on one file handle does not affect
+ other file handles.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The information on dequeueable events is obtained by using select or
+ poll system calls on video devices. The V4L2 events use POLLPRI events on
+ poll system call and exceptions on select system call. </para>
+
+ <!--
+Local Variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-parent-document: "v4l2.sgml"
+indent-tabs-mode: nil
+End:
+ -->