[PATCH v7 06/14] media: Improve enable_streams and disable_streams documentation

Document that enable_streams may start additional streams and
disable_streams may not disable requested streams if other related streams
are still enabled.

Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Mirela Rabulea <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]>
---
 include/media/v4l2-subdev.h | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h b/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h
index d256b7ec8f84..d9dca6905b33 100644
--- a/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h
+++ b/include/media/v4l2-subdev.h
@@ -814,6 +814,11 @@ struct v4l2_subdev_state {
  *	V4L2_SUBDEV_CAP_STREAMS sub-device capability flag can ignore the mask
  *	argument.
  *
+ *	Due to device constraints, starting the requested streams may result in
+ *	additional streams also being started by the driver. Streams that are
+ *	started and stopped together due to the nature of the hardware are
+ *	called a stream group.
+ *
  * @disable_streams: Disable the streams defined in streams_mask on the given
  *	source pad. Subdevs that implement this operation must use the active
  *	state management provided by the subdev core (enabled through a call to
@@ -823,6 +828,9 @@ struct v4l2_subdev_state {
  *	Drivers that support only a single stream without setting the
  *	V4L2_SUBDEV_CAP_STREAMS sub-device capability flag can ignore the mask
  *	argument.
+ *
+ *	When the requested stream are part of a stream group, they will be
+ *	stopped once all streams in the group are stopped.
  */
 struct v4l2_subdev_pad_ops {
 	int (*enum_mbus_code)(struct v4l2_subdev *sd,
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