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* [PATCH v1] doc: media: Document VP9 reference_mode miss-placement
@ 2022-02-21 19:37 Nicolas Dufresne
  2022-02-22  8:22 ` Andrzej Pietrasiewicz
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nicolas Dufresne @ 2022-02-21 19:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab; +Cc: kernel, Nicolas Dufresne, linux-media, linux-kernel

The reference_mode derived syntax is part of the compressed headers and
should have been moved into the corresponding control structure. Document
this mistake. The value can be set to 0 if the driver does not require
compressed headers information.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com>
---
 .../userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst  | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
index cc080c4257d01..ec48e4acb5ece 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/ext-ctrls-codec-stateless.rst
@@ -1692,7 +1692,12 @@ See section '7.3.1 Tx mode semantics' of the :ref:`vp9` specification for more d
     * - __u8
       - ``reference_mode``
       - Specifies the type of inter prediction to be used. See
-        :ref:`Reference Mode<vp9_reference_mode>` for more details.
+        :ref:`Reference Mode<vp9_reference_mode>` for more details. Note that
+	this is derived as part of the compressed header parsing process and
+	for this reason should have bee part of
+	:c:type: `v4l2_ctrl_vp9_compressed_hdr` optional control. It is safe to
+	set this value to zero if the driver does not require compressed
+	headers.
     * - __u8
       - ``reserved[7]``
       - Applications and drivers must set this to zero.
-- 
2.35.1


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