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| author | Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> | 2010-07-30 17:24:55 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> | 2010-10-21 01:04:52 -0200 |
| commit | 692d5522646fdf432329efbe5092dc9c5ca83e85 (patch) | |
| tree | b68da8aa39f3acd1098ed6c7129e6ccebcf44cb0 /Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | |
| parent | c4ce6d14b92aa1772c9d84d068d1b45114fe73cc (diff) | |
V4L/DVB: v4l: Add a v4l2_subdev host private data field
The existing priv field stores subdev private data owned by the subdev
driver. Host (bridge) drivers might need to store per-subdev
host-specific data, such as a pointer to platform data.
Add a v4l2_subdev host_priv field to store host-specific data, and
rename the existing priv field to dev_priv.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt index e831aaca66f..f5fdb395287 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt @@ -192,6 +192,11 @@ You also need a way to go from the low-level struct to v4l2_subdev. For the common i2c_client struct the i2c_set_clientdata() call is used to store a v4l2_subdev pointer, for other busses you may have to use other methods. +Bridges might also need to store per-subdev private data, such as a pointer to +bridge-specific per-subdev private data. The v4l2_subdev structure provides +host private data for that purpose that can be accessed with +v4l2_get_subdev_hostdata() and v4l2_set_subdev_hostdata(). + From the bridge driver perspective you load the sub-device module and somehow obtain the v4l2_subdev pointer. For i2c devices this is easy: you call i2c_get_clientdata(). For other busses something similar needs to be done. |