Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

[pandora-kernel.git] / Documentation / video4linux / v4l2-controls.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt
index 8773778..881e7f4 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-controls.txt
@@ -285,6 +285,9 @@ implement g_volatile_ctrl like this:
 The 'new value' union is not used in g_volatile_ctrl. In general controls
 that need to implement g_volatile_ctrl are read-only controls.
 
+Note that if one or more controls in a control cluster are marked as volatile,
+then all the controls in the cluster are seen as volatile.
+
 To mark a control as volatile you have to set the is_volatile flag:
 
        ctrl = v4l2_ctrl_new_std(&sd->ctrl_handler, ...);
@@ -462,6 +465,15 @@ pointer to the v4l2_ctrl_ops struct that is used for that cluster.
 Obviously, all controls in the cluster array must be initialized to either
 a valid control or to NULL.
 
+In rare cases you might want to know which controls of a cluster actually
+were set explicitly by the user. For this you can check the 'is_new' flag of
+each control. For example, in the case of a volume/mute cluster the 'is_new'
+flag of the mute control would be set if the user called VIDIOC_S_CTRL for
+mute only. If the user would call VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS for both mute and volume
+controls, then the 'is_new' flag would be 1 for both controls.
+
+The 'is_new' flag is always 1 when called from v4l2_ctrl_handler_setup().
+
 
 VIDIOC_LOG_STATUS Support
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