linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] media: Documentation/driver-api: Document entity name

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Message-ID: <8942f489-6d02-8a3c-9c8d-1a4ef15e90fa@xs4all.nl>
Date:   Tue, 7 Dec 2021 10:53:01 +0100
From:   Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>
To:     Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>,
        Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas@...fresne.ca>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tfiga@...omium.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] media: Documentation/driver-api: Document entity
 name

On 07/12/2021 01:38, Ricardo Ribalda wrote:
> 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@...omium.org>

Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>

Thanks!

	Hans

> ---
>  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
>  ------------------
>  
>