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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 0c1a5f50ee21..134d2fb909fa 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-subdev.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/dev-subdev.rst @@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ will feature a character device node on which ioctls can be called to Sub-device character device nodes, conventionally named ``/dev/v4l-subdev*``, use major number 81. +Drivers may opt to limit the sub-device character devices to only expose +operations that do not modify the device state. In such a case the sub-devices +are referred to as ``read-only`` in the rest of this documentation, and the +related restrictions are documented in individual ioctls. + Controls ======== |