linux-kernel - [PATCH] media/doc: Allow sizeimage to be set by v4l clients

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Message-Id: <20190410152128.9811-1-stanimir.varbanov@linaro.org>
Date:   Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:21:28 +0300
From:   Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>
To:     linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
        Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH] media/doc: Allow sizeimage to be set by v4l clients

This changes v4l2_pix_format and v4l2_plane_pix_format sizeimage
field description to allow v4l clients to set bigger image size
in case of variable length compressed data.

Signed-off-by: Stanimir Varbanov <stanimir.varbanov@...aro.org>
---
 Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst | 6 +++++-
 Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst        | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst
index 5688c816e334..a5cdc4537012 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2-mplane.rst
@@ -31,7 +31,11 @@ describing all planes of that format.
 
     * - __u32
       - ``sizeimage``
-      - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane.
+      - Maximum size in bytes required for image data in this plane,
+	set by the driver. When the image consists of variable length
+	compressed data this is the number of bytes required by the
+	codec to support the worst-case compression scenario. Clients
+	are allowed to set the sizeimage field, but drivers may modify it.
     * - __u32
       - ``bytesperline``
       - Distance in bytes between the leftmost pixels in two adjacent
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst
index 71eebfc6d853..70e08c58febc 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/pixfmt-v4l2.rst
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ Single-planar format structure
       - Size in bytes of the buffer to hold a complete image, set by the
 	driver. Usually this is ``bytesperline`` times ``height``. When
 	the image consists of variable length compressed data this is the
-	maximum number of bytes required to hold an image.
+	number of bytes required by the codec to support the worst-case
+	compression scenario. Clients are allowed to set the sizeimage
+	field, but drivers may modify it.
     * - __u32
       - ``colorspace``
       - Image colorspace, from enum :c:type:`v4l2_colorspace`.
-- 
2.17.1