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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2009-02-07 07:07:04 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2009-03-30 12:42:41 -0300
commit89aec3e1baaddeaa5636487f0e23f807eb758168 (patch)
treea9e7b4fb4636e059328dfd05afef111bbfe8ed5c /Documentation
parent8ac05ae3192ce8a71fc84e4a88772cce0c09173c (diff)
V4L/DVB (10489): doc: use consistent naming conventions for vdev and v4l2_dev.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt22
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index cc350624237..73f9b642392 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ The recommended approach is as follows:
static atomic_t drv_instance = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
-static int __devinit drv_probe(struct pci_dev *dev,
+static int __devinit drv_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
const struct pci_device_id *pci_id)
{
...
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ to add new ops and categories.
A sub-device driver initializes the v4l2_subdev struct using:
- v4l2_subdev_init(subdev, &ops);
+ v4l2_subdev_init(sd, &ops);
Afterwards you need to initialize subdev->name with a unique name and set the
module owner. This is done for you if you use the i2c helper functions.
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ module owner. This is done for you if you use the i2c helper functions.
A device (bridge) driver needs to register the v4l2_subdev with the
v4l2_device:
- int err = v4l2_device_register_subdev(device, subdev);
+ int err = v4l2_device_register_subdev(v4l2_dev, sd);
This can fail if the subdev module disappeared before it could be registered.
After this function was called successfully the subdev->dev field points to
@@ -234,17 +234,17 @@ the v4l2_device.
You can unregister a sub-device using:
- v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(subdev);
+ v4l2_device_unregister_subdev(sd);
-Afterwards the subdev module can be unloaded and subdev->dev == NULL.
+Afterwards the subdev module can be unloaded and sd->dev == NULL.
You can call an ops function either directly:
- err = subdev->ops->core->g_chip_ident(subdev, &chip);
+ err = sd->ops->core->g_chip_ident(sd, &chip);
but it is better and easier to use this macro:
- err = v4l2_subdev_call(subdev, core, g_chip_ident, &chip);
+ err = v4l2_subdev_call(sd, core, g_chip_ident, &chip);
The macro will to the right NULL pointer checks and returns -ENODEV if subdev
is NULL, -ENOIOCTLCMD if either subdev->core or subdev->core->g_chip_ident is
@@ -252,12 +252,12 @@ NULL, or the actual result of the subdev->ops->core->g_chip_ident ops.
It is also possible to call all or a subset of the sub-devices:
- v4l2_device_call_all(dev, 0, core, g_chip_ident, &chip);
+ v4l2_device_call_all(v4l2_dev, 0, core, g_chip_ident, &chip);
Any subdev that does not support this ops is skipped and error results are
ignored. If you want to check for errors use this:
- err = v4l2_device_call_until_err(dev, 0, core, g_chip_ident, &chip);
+ err = v4l2_device_call_until_err(v4l2_dev, 0, core, g_chip_ident, &chip);
Any error except -ENOIOCTLCMD will exit the loop with that error. If no
errors (except -ENOIOCTLCMD) occured, then 0 is returned.
@@ -505,8 +505,8 @@ There are a few useful helper functions:
You can set/get driver private data in the video_device struct using:
-void *video_get_drvdata(struct video_device *dev);
-void video_set_drvdata(struct video_device *dev, void *data);
+void *video_get_drvdata(struct video_device *vdev);
+void video_set_drvdata(struct video_device *vdev, void *data);
Note that you can safely call video_set_drvdata() before calling
video_register_device().