ioctl VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO
&manvol;

# VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO

Identify the chips on a TV card

    	int ioctl
    	int fd
    	int request
    	struct v4l2_dbg_chip_info
    *argp

## Arguments

`fd`

  &fd;

`request`

  VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO

`argp`

## Description

### Experimental

This is an experimental interface and may change in the future.

For driver debugging purposes this ioctl allows test applications to query the driver about the chips present on the TV card. Regular applications must not use it. When you found a chip specific bug, please contact the linux-media mailing list (&v4l-ml;) so it can be fixed.

Additionally the Linux kernel must be compiled with the `CONFIG_VIDEO_ADV_DEBUG` option to enable this ioctl.

To query the driver applications must initialize the match.type and match.addr or match.name fields of a &v4l2-dbg-chip-info; and call `VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO` with a pointer to this structure. On success the driver stores information about the selected chip in the name and flags fields.

When match.type is `V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_BRIDGE`, match.addr selects the nth bridge 'chip' on the TV card. You can enumerate all chips by starting at zero and incrementing match.addr by one until `VIDIOC_DBG_G_CHIP_INFO` fails with an &EINVAL;. The number zero always selects the bridge chip itself, &eg; the chip connected to the PCI or USB bus. Non-zero numbers identify specific parts of the bridge chip such as an AC97 register block.

When match.type is `V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_SUBDEV`, match.addr selects the nth sub-device. This allows you to enumerate over all sub-devices.

On success, the name field will contain a chip name and the flags field will contain `V4L2_CHIP_FL_READABLE` if the driver supports reading registers from the device or `V4L2_CHIP_FL_WRITABLE` if the driver supports writing registers to the device.

We recommended the v4l2-dbg utility over calling this ioctl directly. It is available from the LinuxTV v4l-dvb repository; see https://linuxtv.org/repo/ for access instructions.

### struct v4l2_dbg_match

&cs-ustr;
__u32 | type | See for a list of possible types.
union | (anonymous)
| __u32 | addr | Match a chip by this number, interpreted according to the type field.
| char | name[32] | Match a chip by this name, interpreted according to the type field. Currently unused.

### struct v4l2_dbg_chip_info

&cs-str;
struct v4l2_dbg_match | match | How to match the chip, see .
char | name[32] | The name of the chip.
__u32 | flags | Set by the driver. If `V4L2_CHIP_FL_READABLE` is set, then the driver supports reading registers from the device. If `V4L2_CHIP_FL_WRITABLE` is set, then it supports writing registers.
__u32 | reserved[8] | Reserved fields, both application and driver must set these to 0.

### Chip Match Types

&cs-def;
`V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_BRIDGE` | 0 | Match the nth chip on the card, zero for the bridge chip. Does not match sub-devices.
`V4L2_CHIP_MATCH_SUBDEV` | 4 | Match the nth sub-device.

&return-value;

EINVAL

  The match_type is invalid or no device could be matched.