[media] v4l: Document that m2m devices have a file handle specific context
Memory-to-memory V4L2 devices all have file handle specific context. Say this in the API documentation so that the user space may rely on it being the case. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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The MPEG controls actually support many more codecs than
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just MPEG. See :ref:`mpeg-controls`.
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Memory-to-memory devices can often be used as a shared resource: you can
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Memory-to-memory devices function as a shared resource: you can
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open the video node multiple times, each application setting up their
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own codec properties that are local to the file handle, and each can use
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it independently from the others. The driver will arbitrate access to
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* %TRANS_QUEUED, %TRANS_RUNNING and %TRANS_ABORT.
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* @finished: Wait queue used to signalize when a job queue finished.
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* @priv: Instance private data
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*
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* The memory to memory context is specific to a file handle, NOT to e.g.
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* a device.
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*/
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struct v4l2_m2m_ctx {
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/* optional cap/out vb2 queues lock */
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