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authorPhilipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>2013-05-21 05:11:35 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>2013-12-09 14:50:50 -0200
commitc1b96a236e94d49d9396d0bbceb5524519c5c66e (patch)
treea65634750514493440bdea83364001f3a48c9b7f /Documentation/DocBook
parentc7223f8f66b685f325879a88a6c955ebf46a8a36 (diff)
[media] videobuf2: Add support for file access mode flags for DMABUF exporting
Currently it is not possible for userspace to map a DMABUF exported buffer with write permissions. This patch allows to also pass O_RDONLY/O_RDWR when exporting the buffer, so that userspace may map it with write permissions. Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-expbuf.xml8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-expbuf.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-expbuf.xml
index e287c8fc803..4165e7bfa4f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-expbuf.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-expbuf.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ range from zero to the maximal number of valid planes for the currently active
format. For the single-planar API, applications must set <structfield> plane
</structfield> to zero. Additional flags may be posted in the <structfield>
flags </structfield> field. Refer to a manual for open() for details.
-Currently only O_CLOEXEC is supported. All other fields must be set to zero.
+Currently only O_CLOEXEC, O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, and O_RDWR are supported. All
+other fields must be set to zero.
In the case of multi-planar API, every plane is exported separately using
multiple <constant> VIDIOC_EXPBUF </constant> calls. </para>
@@ -170,8 +171,9 @@ multi-planar API. Otherwise this value must be set to zero. </entry>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>flags</structfield></entry>
<entry>Flags for the newly created file, currently only <constant>
-O_CLOEXEC </constant> is supported, refer to the manual of open() for more
-details.</entry>
+O_CLOEXEC </constant>, <constant>O_RDONLY</constant>, <constant>O_WRONLY
+</constant>, and <constant>O_RDWR</constant> are supported, refer to the manual
+of open() for more details.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__s32</entry>