Messages in this thread Patch in this message | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Ricardo Ribalda <> | Subject | [PATCH v2 3/4] media: Documentation/driver-api: Document entity name | Date | Tue, 7 Dec 2021 01:38:39 +0100 |
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Now the entity name can be configured by the driver to a value different than vdev->name. Document it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org> --- Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-dev.rst | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-dev.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-dev.rst index 99e3b5fa7444..22120b60b0a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-dev.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/media/v4l2-dev.rst @@ -134,6 +134,10 @@ manually set the struct media_entity type and name fields. A reference to the entity will be automatically acquired/released when the video device is opened/closed. +The entity name can be configured by setting the `vdev->entity.name` pointer +to the desired value. If it is set to NULL, the entity will be named as the +video device. + ioctls and locking ------------------ -- 2.34.1.400.ga245620fadb-goog
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