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

From: Hans Verkuil
Date: Tue Dec 07 2021 - 04:53:09 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xxxxxxxxx>

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