From 03dd4cb26d967f9588437b0fc9cc0e8353322bb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: André Fabian Silva Delgado Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 03:53:42 -0300 Subject: Linux-libre 4.5-gnu --- .../DocBook/media/v4l/media-controller.xml | 44 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-controller.xml') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-controller.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-controller.xml index 873ac3a62..5f2fc07a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-controller.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-controller.xml @@ -58,21 +58,36 @@ Media device model Discovering a device internal topology, and configuring it at runtime, is one of the goals of the media controller API. To achieve this, hardware - devices are modelled as an oriented graph of building blocks called entities - connected through pads. - An entity is a basic media hardware or software building block. It can - correspond to a large variety of logical blocks such as physical hardware - devices (CMOS sensor for instance), logical hardware devices (a building - block in a System-on-Chip image processing pipeline), DMA channels or - physical connectors. - A pad is a connection endpoint through which an entity can interact - with other entities. Data (not restricted to video) produced by an entity - flows from the entity's output to one or more entity inputs. Pads should not - be confused with physical pins at chip boundaries. - A link is a point-to-point oriented connection between two pads, - either on the same entity or on different entities. Data flows from a source - pad to a sink pad. + devices and Linux Kernel interfaces are modelled as graph objects on + an oriented graph. The object types that constitute the graph are: + + An entity + is a basic media hardware or software building block. It can correspond to + a large variety of logical blocks such as physical hardware devices + (CMOS sensor for instance), logical hardware devices (a building block in + a System-on-Chip image processing pipeline), DMA channels or physical + connectors. + An interface + is a graph representation of a Linux Kernel userspace API interface, + like a device node or a sysfs file that controls one or more entities + in the graph. + A pad + is a data connection endpoint through which an entity can interact with + other entities. Data (not restricted to video) produced by an entity + flows from the entity's output to one or more entity inputs. Pads should + not be confused with physical pins at chip boundaries. + A data link + is a point-to-point oriented connection between two pads, either on the + same entity or on different entities. Data flows from a source pad to a + sink pad. + An interface link + is a point-to-point bidirectional control connection between a Linux + Kernel interface and an entity.m + + + + &sub-media-types; @@ -83,6 +98,7 @@ &sub-media-func-ioctl; &sub-media-ioc-device-info; + &sub-media-ioc-g-topology; &sub-media-ioc-enum-entities; &sub-media-ioc-enum-links; &sub-media-ioc-setup-link; -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf