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Add a new flag that indicates that this control is a dynamically sized array. Also document this flag. Currently dynamically sized arrays are limited to one dimensional arrays, but that might change in the future if there is a need for it. The initial use-case of dynamic arrays are stateless codecs. A frame can be divided in many slices, so you want to provide an array containing slice information for each slice. Typically the number of slices is small, but the standard allow for hundreds or thousands of slices. Dynamic arrays are a good solution since sizing the array for the worst case would waste substantial amounts of memory. Acked-by: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@collabora.com> Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@collabora.com> Tested-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.