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Subject[PATCH] media: docs: vidioc-dqbuf: State all remaining fields are filled by driver
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The specification for VIDIOC_DQBUF is slightly ambiguous on what fields
of |struct v4l2_buffer| is filled by the driver.

Reword it so things are clear: the driver fills in all remaining fields
not specified to be filled in by userspace applications.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst
index 77e0747a6d28..e4b3d9beb9ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Applications call the ``VIDIOC_DQBUF`` ioctl to dequeue a filled
queue. They just set the ``type``, ``memory`` and ``reserved`` fields of
a struct :c:type:`v4l2_buffer` as above, when
``VIDIOC_DQBUF`` is called with a pointer to this structure the driver
-fills the remaining fields or returns an error code. The driver may also
+fills all remaining fields or returns an error code. The driver may also
set ``V4L2_BUF_FLAG_ERROR`` in the ``flags`` field. It indicates a
non-critical (recoverable) streaming error. In such case the application
may continue as normal, but should be aware that data in the dequeued
--
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