@@ -695,3 +695,40 @@ The better way to understand it is to take a look at vivi driver. One
of the main reasons for vivi is to be a videobuf usage example. the
vivi_thread_tick() does the task that the IRQ callback would do on PCI
drivers (or the irq callback on USB).
+
+struct v4l2_fh
+--------------
+
+struct v4l2_fh provides a way to easily keep file handle specific data
+that is used by the V4L2 framework.
+
+struct v4l2_fh is allocated as a part of the driver's own file handle
+structure and is set to file->private_data in the driver's open
+function by the driver. Drivers can extract their own file handle
+structure by using the container_of macro.
+
+Useful functions:
+
+- v4l2_fh_init()
+
+ Initialise the file handle. This *MUST* be performed in the driver's
+ v4l2_file_operations->open() handler.
+
+- v4l2_fh_add()
+
+ Add a v4l2_fh to video_device file handle list. May be called after
+ initialising the file handle.
+
+- v4l2_fh_del()
+
+ Unassociate the file handle from video_device(). The file handle
+ exit function may now be called.
+
+- v4l2_fh_exit()
+
+ Uninitialise the file handle. After uninitialisation the v4l2_fh
+ memory can be freed.
+
+The users of v4l2_fh know whether a driver uses v4l2_fh as its
+file->private_data pointer by testing the V4L2_FL_USES_V4L2_FH bit in
+video_device->flags.