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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-09-22 20:35:45 +0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-12-18 18:35:46 +0300
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media: v4l2-event.rst: improve events description
Both v4l2-event.rst and v4l2-event.h have an overview of events, but there are some inconsistencies there: - at v4l2-event, the event's ring buffer is called kevent. Its name is, instead, v4l2_kevent; - Some things are mentioned on both places (with different words), others are either on one of the files. In order to cleanup this mess, put everything at v4l2-event.rst and improve it to be a little more coherent and to have cross references. Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-event.h b/include/media/v4l2-event.h
index 6741910c3a18..4e83529117f7 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-event.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-event.h
@@ -24,40 +24,6 @@
#include <linux/videodev2.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
-/*
- * Overview:
- *
- * Events are subscribed per-filehandle. An event specification consists of a
- * type and is optionally associated with an object identified through the
- * 'id' field. So an event is uniquely identified by the (type, id) tuple.
- *
- * The v4l2-fh struct has a list of subscribed events. The v4l2_subscribed_event
- * struct is added to that list, one for every subscribed event.
- *
- * Each v4l2_subscribed_event struct ends with an array of v4l2_kevent structs.
- * This array (ringbuffer, really) is used to store any events raised by the
- * driver. The v4l2_kevent struct links into the 'available' list of the
- * v4l2_fh struct so VIDIOC_DQEVENT will know which event to dequeue first.
- *
- * Finally, if the event subscription is associated with a particular object
- * such as a V4L2 control, then that object needs to know about that as well
- * so that an event can be raised by that object. So the 'node' field can
- * be used to link the v4l2_subscribed_event struct into a list of that
- * object.
- *
- * So to summarize:
- *
- * struct v4l2_fh has two lists: one of the subscribed events, and one of the
- * pending events.
- *
- * struct v4l2_subscribed_event has a ringbuffer of raised (pending) events of
- * that particular type.
- *
- * If struct v4l2_subscribed_event is associated with a specific object, then
- * that object will have an internal list of struct v4l2_subscribed_event so
- * it knows who subscribed an event to that object.
- */
-
struct v4l2_fh;
struct v4l2_subdev;
struct v4l2_subscribed_event;