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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-06 11:27:48 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-02-06 11:27:48 -0800
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Merge tag 'media/v4.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: - videobuf2 was moved to a media/common dir, as it is now used by the DVB subsystem too - Digital TV core memory mapped support interface - new sensor driver: ov7740 - several improvements at ddbridge driver - new V4L2 driver: IPU3 CIO2 CSI-2 receiver unit, found on some Intel SoCs - new tuner driver: tda18250 - finally got rid of all LIRC staging drivers - as we don't have old lirc drivers anymore, restruct the lirc device code - add support for UVC metadata - add a new staging driver for NVIDIA Tegra Video Decoder Engine - DVB kAPI headers moved to include/media - synchronize the kAPI and uAPI for the DVB subsystem, removing the gap for non-legacy APIs - reduce the kAPI gap for V4L2 - lots of other driver enhancements, cleanups, etc. * tag 'media/v4.16-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (407 commits) media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: make ctrl_is_pointer work for subdevs media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: refactor compat ioctl32 logic media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: don't copy back the result for certain errors media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: drop pr_info for unknown buffer type media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy clip list in put_v4l2_window32 media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: fix ctrl_is_pointer media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: copy m.userptr in put_v4l2_plane32 media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: avoid sizeof(type) media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: move 'helper' functions to __get/put_v4l2_format32 media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: fix the indentation media: v4l2-compat-ioctl32.c: add missing VIDIOC_PREPARE_BUF media: v4l2-ioctl.c: don't copy back the result for -ENOTTY media: v4l2-ioctl.c: use check_fmt for enum/g/s/try_fmt media: vivid: fix module load error when enabling fb and no_error_inj=1 media: dvb_demux: improve debug messages media: dvb_demux: Better handle discontinuity errors media: cxusb, dib0700: ignore XC2028_I2C_FLUSH media: ts2020: avoid integer overflows on 32 bit machines media: i2c: ov7740: use gpio/consumer.h instead of gpio.h media: entity: Add a nop variant of media_entity_cleanup ...
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+.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
+
+.. _v4l2-meta-fmt-uvc:
+
+*******************************
+V4L2_META_FMT_UVC ('UVCH')
+*******************************
+
+UVC Payload Header Data
+
+
+Description
+===========
+
+This format describes standard UVC metadata, extracted from UVC packet headers
+and provided by the UVC driver through metadata video nodes. That data includes
+exact copies of the standard part of UVC Payload Header contents and auxiliary
+timing information, required for precise interpretation of timestamps, contained
+in those headers. See section "2.4.3.3 Video and Still Image Payload Headers" of
+the "UVC 1.5 Class specification" for details.
+
+Each UVC payload header can be between 2 and 12 bytes large. Buffers can
+contain multiple headers, if multiple such headers have been transmitted by the
+camera for the respective frame. However, the driver may drop headers when the
+buffer is full, when they contain no useful information (e.g. those without the
+SCR field or with that field identical to the previous header), or generally to
+perform rate limiting when the device sends a large number of headers.
+
+Each individual block contains the following fields:
+
+.. flat-table:: UVC Metadata Block
+ :widths: 1 4
+ :header-rows: 1
+ :stub-columns: 0
+
+ * - Field
+ - Description
+ * - __u64 ts;
+ - system timestamp in host byte order, measured by the driver upon
+ reception of the payload
+ * - __u16 sof;
+ - USB Frame Number in host byte order, also obtained by the driver as
+ close as possible to the above timestamp to enable correlation between
+ them
+ * - :cspan:`1` *The rest is an exact copy of the UVC payload header:*
+ * - __u8 length;
+ - length of the rest of the block, including this field
+ * - __u8 flags;
+ - Flags, indicating presence of other standard UVC fields
+ * - __u8 buf[];
+ - The rest of the header, possibly including UVC PTS and SCR fields