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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-07-08 11:40:06 -0300
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The name of the subsystem is "media", and not "linux_tv". Also, as we plan to add other stuff there in the future, let's rename also the media uAPI book to media_uapi, to make it clearer. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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+.. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst -*-
+
+.. _querycap:
+
+*********************
+Querying Capabilities
+*********************
+
+Because V4L2 covers a wide variety of devices not all aspects of the API
+are equally applicable to all types of devices. Furthermore devices of
+the same type have different capabilities and this specification permits
+the omission of a few complicated and less important parts of the API.
+
+The :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` ioctl is available to
+check if the kernel device is compatible with this specification, and to
+query the :ref:`functions <devices>` and :ref:`I/O methods <io>`
+supported by the device.
+
+Starting with kernel version 3.1, :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP`
+will return the V4L2 API version used by the driver, with generally
+matches the Kernel version. There's no need of using
+:ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` to check if a specific ioctl
+is supported, the V4L2 core now returns ``ENOTTY`` if a driver doesn't
+provide support for an ioctl.
+
+Other features can be queried by calling the respective ioctl, for
+example :ref:`VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT` to learn about the
+number, types and names of video connectors on the device. Although
+abstraction is a major objective of this API, the
+:ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP` ioctl also allows driver
+specific applications to reliably identify the driver.
+
+All V4L2 drivers must support :ref:`VIDIOC_QUERYCAP`.
+Applications should always call this ioctl after opening the device.