V4L/DVB (11021): v4l2-device: add a notify callback.

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / Documentation / video4linux / v4l2-framework.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index df0247ed13d8f15a9b29581f15666bebff21ac78..4207590b2ac853cccbae4014209a4d0a2388e29d 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ usb_device or platform_device. It is rare for dev to be NULL, but it happens
 with ISA devices or when one device creates multiple PCI devices, thus making
 it impossible to associate v4l2_dev with a particular parent.
 
+You can also supply a notify() callback that can be called by sub-devices to
+notify you of events. Whether you need to set this depends on the sub-device.
+Any notifications a sub-device supports must be defined in a header in
+include/media/<subdevice>.h.
+
 You unregister with:
 
        v4l2_device_unregister(struct v4l2_device *v4l2_dev);
@@ -281,6 +286,11 @@ e.g. AUDIO_CONTROLLER and specify that as the group ID value when calling
 v4l2_device_call_all(). That ensures that it will only go to the subdev
 that needs it.
 
+If the sub-device needs to notify its v4l2_device parent of an event, then
+it can call v4l2_subdev_notify(sd, notification, arg). This macro checks
+whether there is a notify() callback defined and returns -ENODEV if not.
+Otherwise the result of the notify() call is returned.
+
 The advantage of using v4l2_subdev is that it is a generic struct and does
 not contain any knowledge about the underlying hardware. So a driver might
 contain several subdevs that use an I2C bus, but also a subdev that is