Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/video.rst
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/video.rst
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/video.rst- Extension
.rst- Size
- 2110 bytes
- Lines
- 70
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- Documentation
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: documentation
- Status
- atlas-only
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
if (-1 == ioctl(fd, VIDIOC_G_INPUT, &index)) {
perror("VIDIOC_G_INPUT");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
memset(&input, 0, sizeof(input));
input.index = index;
if (-1 == ioctl(fd, VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT, &input)) {
perror("VIDIOC_ENUMINPUT");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
printf("Current input: %s\\n", input.name);
Example: Switching to the first video input
===========================================
.. code-block:: c
int index;
index = 0;
if (-1 == ioctl(fd, VIDIOC_S_INPUT, &index)) {
perror("VIDIOC_S_INPUT");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / Documentation.
- Implementation status: atlas-only.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.