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[v4,08/23] media: Documentation: Additional streams generally don't harm capture

Message ID 20230922142239.259425-9-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
State Superseded
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Series Generic line based metadata support, internal pads | expand

Commit Message

Sakari Ailus Sept. 22, 2023, 2:22 p.m. UTC 
Having extra streams on the source end of the link that cannot be captured
by the sink sub-device generally are not an issue, at least not on CSI-2
bus. Still document that there may be hardware specific limitations. For
example on parallel bus this might not work on all cases.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
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 Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-subdev.rst | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-subdev.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-subdev.rst
index f375b820ab68..a387e8a15b8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-subdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-subdev.rst
@@ -529,9 +529,9 @@  the its sink pad and allows to route them individually to one of its source
 pads.
 
 Subdevice drivers that support multiplexed streams are compatible with
-non-multiplexed subdev drivers, but, of course, require a routing configuration
-where the link between those two types of drivers contains only a single
-stream.
+non-multiplexed subdev drivers. However, if the driver at the sink end of a link
+does not support streams, then only the stream 0 on source end may be
+captured. There may be additional hardware specific limitations.
 
 Understanding streams
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^