Name

VIDIOC_QUERYBUF — Query the status of a buffer

Synopsis

int ioctl(int  fd,
 int  request,
 struct v4l2_buffer * argp);

Arguments

fd

File descriptor returned by open().

request

VIDIOC_QUERYBUF

argp

Description

This ioctl is part of the memory mapping I/O method. It can be used to query the status of a buffer at any time after buffers have been allocated with the VIDIOC_REQBUFS ioctl.

Applications set the type field of a struct v4l2_buffer to the same buffer type as previously struct v4l2_format type and struct v4l2_requestbuffers type, and the index field. Valid index numbers range from zero to the number of buffers allocated with VIDIOC_REQBUFS (struct v4l2_requestbuffers count) minus one. After calling VIDIOC_QUERYBUF with a pointer to this structure drivers return an error code or fill the rest of the structure.

In the flags field the V4L2_BUF_FLAG_MAPPED, V4L2_BUF_FLAG_QUEUED and V4L2_BUF_FLAG_DONE flags will be valid. The memory field will be set to V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP, the m.offset contains the offset of the buffer from the start of the device memory, the length field its size. The driver may or may not set the remaining fields and flags, they are meaningless in this context.

The v4l2_buffer structure is specified in Section 3.5, “Buffers”.

Return Value

On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the errno variable is set appropriately:

EINVAL

The buffer type is not supported, or the index is out of bounds.