From 5d44f5e3e388739f017a74e73dab2a995673915f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hans Verkuil Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 05:47:30 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] [media] Spec: document CREATE_BUFS behavior if count == 0 Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml index a2474ecb574a..5e73b1c8d095 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-create-bufs.xml @@ -97,7 +97,13 @@ information. __u32 count - The number of buffers requested or granted. + The number of buffers requested or granted. If count == 0, then + VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS will set index + to the current number of created buffers, and it will check the validity of + memory and format.type. + If those are invalid -1 is returned and errno is set to &EINVAL;, + otherwise VIDIOC_CREATE_BUFS returns 0. It will + never set errno to &EBUSY; in this particular case. __u32