[media] DocBook v4l: update bytesperline handling

The documentation says that the bytesperline field in v4l2_pix_format refers
to the largest plane in the case of planar formats (i.e. multiple planes
stores in a single buffer).

For almost all planar formats the first plane is also the largest (or equal)
plane, except for two formats: V4L2_PIX_FMT_NV24/NV42. For this YUV 4:4:4
format the second chroma plane is twice the size of the first luma plane.

Looking at the very few drivers that support this format the bytesperline
value that they report is actually that of the first plane and not that
of the largest plane.

Rather than fixing the drivers it makes more sense to update the documentation
since it is very difficult to use the largest plane for this. You would have
to check what the format is in order to know to which plane bytesperline
belongs, which makes calculations much more difficult.

This patch updates the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
index 56bdd24abf695a4181afc2dfae1a9528d4b637fe..79c2bd049c92c97b397e46f394b028b0b298debe 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/pixfmt.xml
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ padding bytes after the last line of an image cross a system page
 boundary. Input devices may write padding bytes, the value is
 undefined. Output devices ignore the contents of padding
 bytes.</para><para>When the image format is planar the
-<structfield>bytesperline</structfield> value applies to the largest
+<structfield>bytesperline</structfield> value applies to the first
 plane and is divided by the same factor as the
-<structfield>width</structfield> field for any smaller planes. For
+<structfield>width</structfield> field for the other planes. For
 example the Cb and Cr planes of a YUV 4:2:0 image have half as many
 padding bytes following each line as the Y plane. To avoid ambiguities
 drivers must return a <structfield>bytesperline</structfield> value

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml
index 20460730b02ca242e0ba5d096761ac00ea8239af..77607cc196889b6fc14e412d72fc229fdf3210d0 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml
@@ -240,9 +240,9 @@ where padding bytes after the last line of an image cross a system
 page boundary. Capture devices may write padding bytes, the value is
 undefined. Output devices ignore the contents of padding
 bytes.</para><para>When the image format is planar the
-<structfield>bytesperline</structfield> value applies to the largest
+<structfield>bytesperline</structfield> value applies to the first
 plane and is divided by the same factor as the
-<structfield>width</structfield> field for any smaller planes. For
+<structfield>width</structfield> field for the other planes. For
 example the Cb and Cr planes of a YUV 4:2:0 image have half as many
 padding bytes following each line as the Y plane. To avoid ambiguities
 drivers must return a <structfield>bytesperline</structfield> value