linux/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dbg-g-chip-info.xml

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<refentry id="vidioc-dbg-g-chip-info">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO</refentrytitle>
&manvol;
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO</refname>
<refpurpose>Identify the chips on a TV card</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis>
<funcprototype>
<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
<paramdef>struct v4l2_dbg_chip_info
*<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Arguments</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>fd</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>&fd;</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para>VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<note>
<title>Experimental</title>
<para>This is an <link
linkend="experimental">experimental</link> interface and may change in
the future.</para>
</note>
<para>For driver debugging purposes this ioctl allows test
applications to query the driver about the chips present on the TV
card. Regular applications must not use it. When you found a chip
specific bug, please contact the linux-media mailing list (&v4l-ml;)
so it can be fixed.</para>
<para>Additionally the Linux kernel must be compiled with the
<constant>CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG</constant> option to enable this ioctl.</para>
<para>To query the driver applications must initialize the
<structfield>match.type</structfield> and
<structfield>match.addr</structfield> or <structfield>match.name</structfield>
fields of a &v4l2-dbg-chip-info;
and call <constant>VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO</constant> with a pointer to
this structure. On success the driver stores information about the
selected chip in the <structfield>name</structfield> and
<structfield>flags</structfield> fields.</para>
<para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is
<constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_BRIDGE</constant>,
<structfield>match.addr</structfield> selects the nth bridge 'chip'
on the TV card. You can enumerate all chips by starting at zero and
incrementing <structfield>match.addr</structfield> by one until
<constant>VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO</constant> fails with an &EINVAL;.
The number zero always selects the bridge chip itself, &eg; the chip
connected to the PCI or USB bus. Non-zero numbers identify specific
parts of the bridge chip such as an AC97 register block.</para>
<para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is
<constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_SUBDEV</constant>,
<structfield>match.addr</structfield> selects the nth sub-device. This
allows you to enumerate over all sub-devices.</para>
<para>On success, the <structfield>name</structfield> field will
contain a chip name and the <structfield>flags</structfield> field will
contain <constant>V4L2_CHIP_FL_READABLE</constant> if the driver supports
reading registers from the device or <constant>V4L2_CHIP_FL_WRITABLE</constant>
if the driver supports writing registers to the device.</para>
<para>We recommended the <application>v4l2-dbg</application>
utility over calling this ioctl directly. It is available from the
LinuxTV v4l-dvb repository; see <ulink
url="http://linuxtv.org/repo/">http://linuxtv.org/repo/</ulink> for
access instructions.</para>
<!-- Note for convenience vidioc-dbg-g-register.sgml
contains a duplicate of this table. -->
<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="name-v4l2-dbg-match">
<title>struct <structname>v4l2_dbg_match</structname></title>
<tgroup cols="4">
&cs-ustr;
<tbody valign="top">
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>type</structfield></entry>
<entry>See <xref linkend="name-chip-match-types" /> for a list of
possible types.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>union</entry>
<entry>(anonymous)</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry></entry>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>addr</structfield></entry>
<entry>Match a chip by this number, interpreted according
to the <structfield>type</structfield> field.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry></entry>
<entry>char</entry>
<entry><structfield>name[32]</structfield></entry>
<entry>Match a chip by this name, interpreted according
to the <structfield>type</structfield> field. Currently unused.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-dbg-chip-info">
<title>struct <structname>v4l2_dbg_chip_info</structname></title>
<tgroup cols="3">
&cs-str;
<tbody valign="top">
<row>
<entry>struct v4l2_dbg_match</entry>
<entry><structfield>match</structfield></entry>
<entry>How to match the chip, see <xref linkend="name-v4l2-dbg-match" />.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>char</entry>
<entry><structfield>name[32]</structfield></entry>
<entry>The name of the chip.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>flags</structfield></entry>
<entry>Set by the driver. If <constant>V4L2_CHIP_FL_READABLE</constant>
is set, then the driver supports reading registers from the device. If
<constant>V4L2_CHIP_FL_WRITABLE</constant> is set, then it supports writing registers.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>__u32</entry>
<entry><structfield>reserved[8]</structfield></entry>
<entry>Reserved fields, both application and driver must set these to 0.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
<!-- Note for convenience vidioc-dbg-g-register.sgml
contains a duplicate of this table. -->
<table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="name-chip-match-types">
<title>Chip Match Types</title>
<tgroup cols="3">
&cs-def;
<tbody valign="top">
<row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_BRIDGE</constant></entry>
<entry>0</entry>
<entry>Match the nth chip on the card, zero for the
bridge chip. Does not match sub-devices.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_SUBDEV</constant></entry>
<entry>4</entry>
<entry>Match the nth sub-device.</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
&return-value;
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>EINVAL</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <structfield>match_type</structfield> is invalid or
no device could be matched.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>