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media: docs: vidioc-dqbuf: State all remaining fields are filled by driver

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The specification for VIDIOC_DQBUF is slightly ambiguous on what fields
of |struct v4l2_buffer| is filled by the driver.

Reword it so things are clear: the driver fills in all remaining fields
not specified to be filled in by userspace applications.

Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wenst@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
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Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.rst
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@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Applications call the ``VIDIOC_DQBUF`` ioctl to dequeue a filled
queue. They just set the ``type``, ``memory`` and ``reserved`` fields of
a struct :c:type:`v4l2_buffer` as above, when
``VIDIOC_DQBUF`` is called with a pointer to this structure the driver
fills the remaining fields or returns an error code. The driver may also
fills all remaining fields or returns an error code. The driver may also
set ``V4L2_BUF_FLAG_ERROR`` in the ``flags`` field. It indicates a
non-critical (recoverable) streaming error. In such case the application
may continue as normal, but should be aware that data in the dequeued