[media] media: add support for decoder as one of media entity types
authorManjunath Hadli <manjunath.hadli@ti.com>
Thu, 7 Feb 2013 16:48:51 +0000 (13:48 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 17:05:31 +0000 (14:05 -0300)
A lot of SOCs including Texas Instruments Davinci family mainly use
video decoders as input devices. This patch adds a flag
'MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_DECODER' media entity type for decoder's.
Along side updates the documentation for this media entity type.

Signed-off-by: Manjunath Hadli <manjunath.hadli@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.lad@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-enum-entities.xml
include/uapi/linux/media.h

index 576b68b..116c301 100644 (file)
            <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_LENS</constant></entry>
            <entry>Lens controller</entry>
          </row>
+         <row>
+           <entry><constant>MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_DECODER</constant></entry>
+           <entry>Video decoder, the basic function of the video decoder is to
+           accept analogue video from a wide variety of sources such as
+           broadcast, DVD players, cameras and video cassette recorders, in
+           either NTSC, PAL or HD format and still occasionally SECAM, separate
+           it into its component parts, luminance and chrominance, and output
+           it in some digital video standard, with appropriate embedded timing
+           signals.</entry>
+         </row>
        </tbody>
       </tgroup>
     </table>
index 0ef8833..ed49574 100644 (file)
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ struct media_device_info {
 #define MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_SENSOR (MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV + 1)
 #define MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_FLASH  (MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV + 2)
 #define MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_LENS   (MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV + 3)
+/* A converter of analogue video to its digital representation. */
+#define MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV_DECODER        (MEDIA_ENT_T_V4L2_SUBDEV + 4)
 
 #define MEDIA_ENT_FL_DEFAULT           (1 << 0)