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[v4,1/4] media: vidioc-enum-fmt.rst: clarify format preference

Message ID 20191205142443.1298-2-ezequiel@collabora.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series Enable Hantro G1 post-processor | expand

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Ezequiel Garcia Dec. 5, 2019, 2:24 p.m. UTC 
It has been decided to use the ENUM_FMT index value
as a hint for driver preference. This is defined purposedly
in a very liberal way, letting drivers define what "preference"
means.

For instance, the Hantro VPU driver indicates additional
processing to output a given format, and thus implicates
more CPU usage, which is enumerated after native (non-processed)
formats.

Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
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 Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
index 399ef1062bac..8ca6ab701e4a 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-enum-fmt.rst
@@ -44,7 +44,9 @@  To enumerate image formats applications initialize the ``type`` and
 the :ref:`VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT` ioctl with a pointer to this structure. Drivers
 fill the rest of the structure or return an ``EINVAL`` error code. All
 formats are enumerable by beginning at index zero and incrementing by
-one until ``EINVAL`` is returned.
+one until ``EINVAL`` is returned. If applicable, drivers shall return
+formats in preference order, where preferred formats are returned before
+(that is, with lower ``index`` value) less-preferred formats.
 
 .. note::