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-rw-r--r--include/hardware/gralloc.h13
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/hardware/gralloc.h b/include/hardware/gralloc.h
index 91e2f697..7d00114a 100644
--- a/include/hardware/gralloc.h
+++ b/include/hardware/gralloc.h
@@ -237,8 +237,17 @@ typedef struct gralloc_module_t {
* difference that it fills a struct ycbcr with a description of the buffer
* layout, and zeroes out the reserved fields.
*
- * This will only work on buffers with HAL_PIXEL_FORMAT_YCbCr_*_888, and
- * will return -EINVAL on any other buffer formats.
+ * If the buffer format is not compatible with a flexible YUV format (e.g.
+ * the buffer layout cannot be represented with the ycbcr struct), it
+ * will return -EINVAL.
+ *
+ * This method must work on buffers with HAL_PIXEL_FORMAT_YCbCr_*_888
+ * if supported by the device, as well as with any other format that is
+ * requested by the multimedia codecs when they are configured with a
+ * flexible-YUV-compatible color-format with android native buffers.
+ *
+ * Note that this method may also be called on buffers of other formats,
+ * including non-YUV formats.
*
* Added in GRALLOC_MODULE_API_VERSION_0_2.
*/