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From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
To: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v6 3/6] docs: media: v4l2-ioctl.h: document two global variables
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:19:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8ebe25ff579962fec09b586f00e77fae7802985f.1765894670.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1765894670.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

The media kAPI has two global variables at v4l2-ioctl.h. Document
them.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
---
 include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h b/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h
index 6f7a58350441..54c83b18d555 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h
@@ -663,7 +663,22 @@ void v4l_printk_ioctl(const char *prefix, unsigned int cmd);
 struct video_device;
 
 /* names for fancy debug output */
+
+/**
+ * var v4l2_field_names - Helper array mapping ``V4L2_FIELD_*`` to strings.
+ *
+ * Specially when printing debug messages, it is interesting to output
+ * the field order at the V4L2 buffers. This array associates all possible
+ * values of field pix format from V4L2 API into a string.
+ */
 extern const char *v4l2_field_names[];
+
+/**
+ * var v4l2_type_names - Helper array mapping ``V4L2_BUF_TYPE_*`` to strings.
+ *
+ * When printing debug messages, it is interesting to output the V4L2 buffer
+ * type number with a name that represents its content.
+ */
 extern const char *v4l2_type_names[];
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
-- 
2.52.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-12-16 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-12-16 14:19 [PATCH v6 0/6] kernel-doc: add support for documenting vars Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-12-16 14:19 ` [PATCH v6 1/6] kernel-doc: add support for handling global variables Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-12-16 14:19 ` [PATCH v6 2/6] kernel-doc: add support to handle DEFINE_ variables Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-12-16 14:19 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab [this message]
2025-12-16 14:19 ` [PATCH v6 4/6] docs: kernel-doc.rst: don't let automarkup mangle with consts Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-12-16 14:19 ` [PATCH v6 5/6] docs: kernel-doc.rst: document the new "var" kernel-doc markup Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2025-12-16 14:19 ` [PATCH v6 6/6] docs: kernel-doc.rst: Parse DEFINE_ macros without prefixes Mauro Carvalho Chehab

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