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authorEzequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>2019-12-05 17:24:40 +0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2019-12-16 12:24:55 +0300
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media: vidioc-enum-fmt.rst: clarify format preference
It has been decided to use the ENUM_FMT index value as a hint for driver preference. This is defined purposedly in a very liberal way, letting drivers define what "preference" means. For instance, the Hantro VPU driver indicates additional processing to output a given format, and thus implicates more CPU usage, which is enumerated after native (non-processed) formats. Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com> Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
index 399ef1062bac..8ca6ab701e4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@ To enumerate image formats applications initialize the ``type`` and
the :ref:`VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT` ioctl with a pointer to this structure. Drivers
fill the rest of the structure or return an ``EINVAL`` error code. All
formats are enumerable by beginning at index zero and incrementing by
-one until ``EINVAL`` is returned.
+one until ``EINVAL`` is returned. If applicable, drivers shall return
+formats in preference order, where preferred formats are returned before
+(that is, with lower ``index`` value) less-preferred formats.
.. note::