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+<refentry id="vidioc-dbg-g-chip-ident">
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_IDENT</refentrytitle>
+ &manvol;
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_IDENT</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_ident
+*<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_IDENT</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>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-ident;
+and call <constant>VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_IDENT</constant> with a pointer to
+this structure. On success the driver stores information about the
+selected chip in the <structfield>ident</structfield> and
+<structfield>revision</structfield> fields. On failure the structure
+remains unchanged.</para>
+
+ <para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is
+<constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_HOST</constant>,
+<structfield>match.addr</structfield> selects the nth non-&i2c; 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_IDENT</constant> fails with an &EINVAL;.
+The number zero always selects the host chip, &eg; the chip connected
+to the PCI or USB bus.</para>
+
+ <para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is
+<constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_I2C_DRIVER</constant>,
+<structfield>match.name</structfield> contains the I2C driver name.
+For instance
+<constant>"saa7127"</constant> will match any chip
+supported by the saa7127 driver, regardless of its &i2c; bus address.
+When multiple chips supported by the same driver are present, the
+ioctl will return <constant>V4L2_IDENT_AMBIGUOUS</constant> in the
+<structfield>ident</structfield> field.</para>
+
+ <para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is
+<constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_I2C_ADDR</constant>,
+<structfield>match.addr</structfield> selects a chip by its 7 bit
+&i2c; bus address.</para>
+
+ <para>When <structfield>match.type</structfield> is
+<constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_AC97</constant>,
+<structfield>match.addr</structfield> selects the nth AC97 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_IDENT</constant> fails with an &EINVAL;.</para>
+
+ <para>On success, the <structfield>ident</structfield> field will
+contain a chip ID from the Linux
+<filename>media/v4l2-chip-ident.h</filename> header file, and the
+<structfield>revision</structfield> field will contain a driver
+specific value, or zero if no particular revision is associated with
+this chip.</para>
+
+ <para>When the driver could not identify the selected chip,
+<structfield>ident</structfield> will contain
+<constant>V4L2_IDENT_UNKNOWN</constant>. When no chip matched
+the ioctl will succeed but the
+<structfield>ident</structfield> field will contain
+<constant>V4L2_IDENT_NONE</constant>. If multiple chips matched,
+<structfield>ident</structfield> will contain
+<constant>V4L2_IDENT_AMBIGUOUS</constant>. In all these cases the
+<structfield>revision</structfield> field remains unchanged.</para>
+
+ <para>This ioctl is optional, not all drivers may support it. It
+was introduced in Linux 2.6.21, but the API was changed to the
+one described here in 2.6.29.</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="ident-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="ident-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.</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-dbg-chip-ident">
+ <title>struct <structname>v4l2_dbg_chip_ident</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="ident-v4l2-dbg-match" />.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>__u32</entry>
+ <entry><structfield>ident</structfield></entry>
+ <entry>A chip identifier as defined in the Linux
+<filename>media/v4l2-chip-ident.h</filename> header file, or one of
+the values from <xref linkend="chip-ids" />.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry>__u32</entry>
+ <entry><structfield>revision</structfield></entry>
+ <entry>A chip revision, chip and driver specific.</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="ident-chip-match-types">
+ <title>Chip Match Types</title>
+ <tgroup cols="3">
+ &cs-def;
+ <tbody valign="top">
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_HOST</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>Match the nth chip on the card, zero for the
+ host chip. Does not match &i2c; chips.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_I2C_DRIVER</constant></entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>Match an &i2c; chip by its driver name.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_I2C_ADDR</constant></entry>
+ <entry>2</entry>
+ <entry>Match a chip by its 7 bit &i2c; bus address.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_AC97</constant></entry>
+ <entry>3</entry>
+ <entry>Match the nth anciliary AC97 chip.</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ <!-- This is an anonymous enum in media/v4l2-chip-ident.h. -->
+ <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="chip-ids">
+ <title>Chip Identifiers</title>
+ <tgroup cols="3">
+ &cs-def;
+ <tbody valign="top">
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_IDENT_NONE</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0</entry>
+ <entry>No chip matched.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_IDENT_AMBIGUOUS</constant></entry>
+ <entry>1</entry>
+ <entry>Multiple chips matched.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_IDENT_UNKNOWN</constant></entry>
+ <entry>2</entry>
+ <entry>A chip is present at this address, but the driver
+could not identify it.</entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ &return-value;
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><errorcode>EINVAL</errorcode></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The driver does not support this ioctl, or the
+<structfield>match_type</structfield> is invalid.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>
+
+<!--
+Local Variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-parent-document: "v4l2.sgml"
+indent-tabs-mode: nil
+End:
+-->