On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 06:10:58PM -0700, Mark McClelland wrote:
> >
> >Hm, then what's the OVCAMCHIP_CMD_S_MODE ioctl definition for?
> >
> 
> It is a pseudo-ioctl, which is called by kernel code only, using the 
> normal i2c command() call. That's how V4L drivers communicate with i2c 
> clients for tuners/decoders/etc... In this case, the V4L ioctl for 
> setting up a video mode was not expressive enough, so I had to add a new 
> one.
> 
> If this driver ever needs to be controlled using i2c-dev, I will either 
> make sure that this code has the necessary thunking, or find another way 
> to do it.

Ah, ok, thanks for the explaination.

greg k-h


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