</orderedlist>
     </section>
 
+    <section>
+      <title>V4L2 in Linux 3.5</title>
+      <orderedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>Replaced <structfield>input</structfield> in
+         <structname>v4l2_buffer</structname> by
+         <structfield>reserved2</structfield> and removed
+         <constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant>.</para>
+       </listitem>
+      </orderedlist>
+    </section>
+
     <section id="other">
       <title>Relation of V4L2 to other Linux multimedia APIs</title>
 
 
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>__u32</entry>
-           <entry><structfield>input</structfield></entry>
+           <entry><structfield>reserved2</structfield></entry>
            <entry></entry>
-           <entry>Some video capture drivers support rapid and
-synchronous video input changes, a function useful for example in
-video surveillance applications. For this purpose applications set the
-<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant> flag, and this field to the
-number of a video input as in &v4l2-input; field
-<structfield>index</structfield>.</entry>
+           <entry>A place holder for future extensions and custom
+(driver defined) buffer types
+<constant>V4L2_BUF_TYPE_PRIVATE</constant> and higher. Applications
+should set this to 0.</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry>__u32</entry>
            <entry>The <structfield>timecode</structfield> field is valid.
 Drivers set or clear this flag when the <constant>VIDIOC_DQBUF</constant>
 ioctl is called.</entry>
-         </row>
-         <row>
-           <entry><constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant></entry>
-           <entry>0x0200</entry>
-           <entry>The <structfield>input</structfield> field is valid.
-Applications set or clear this flag before calling the
-<constant>VIDIOC_QBUF</constant> ioctl.</entry>
          </row>
          <row>
            <entry><constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_PREPARED</constant></entry>
 
 <structfield>field</structfield> and
 <structfield>timestamp</structfield> fields, see <xref
 linkend="buffer" /> for details.
-Applications must also set <structfield>flags</structfield> to 0. If a driver
-supports capturing from specific video inputs and you want to specify a video
-input, then <structfield>flags</structfield> should be set to
-<constant>V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT</constant> and the field
-<structfield>input</structfield> must be initialized to the desired input.
-The <structfield>reserved</structfield> field must be set to 0. When using
+Applications must also set <structfield>flags</structfield> to 0.
+The <structfield>reserved2</structfield> and
+<structfield>reserved</structfield> fields must be set to 0. When using
 the <link linkend="planar-apis">multi-planar API</link>, the
 <structfield>m.planes</structfield> field must contain a userspace pointer
 to a filled-in array of &v4l2-plane; and the <structfield>length</structfield>
 
        buf->sequence = cam->buffers[buf->index].seq;
        buf->m.offset = cam->buffers[buf->index].data - cam->frame_buffer;
        buf->length = cam->frame_size;
-       buf->input = 0;
+       buf->reserved2 = 0;
        buf->reserved = 0;
        memset(&buf->timecode, 0, sizeof(buf->timecode));
 
 
                compat_caddr_t  planes;
        } m;
        __u32                   length;
-       __u32                   input;
+       __u32                   reserved2;
        __u32                   reserved;
 };
 
                get_user(kp->index, &up->index) ||
                get_user(kp->type, &up->type) ||
                get_user(kp->flags, &up->flags) ||
-               get_user(kp->memory, &up->memory) ||
-               get_user(kp->input, &up->input))
+               get_user(kp->memory, &up->memory)
                        return -EFAULT;
 
        if (V4L2_TYPE_IS_OUTPUT(kp->type))
                put_user(kp->index, &up->index) ||
                put_user(kp->type, &up->type) ||
                put_user(kp->flags, &up->flags) ||
-               put_user(kp->memory, &up->memory) ||
-               put_user(kp->input, &up->input))
+               put_user(kp->memory, &up->memory)
                        return -EFAULT;
 
        if (put_user(kp->bytesused, &up->bytesused) ||
                put_user(kp->timestamp.tv_usec, &up->timestamp.tv_usec) ||
                copy_to_user(&up->timecode, &kp->timecode, sizeof(struct v4l2_timecode)) ||
                put_user(kp->sequence, &up->sequence) ||
-               put_user(kp->reserved, &up->reserved))
+               put_user(kp->reserved2, &up->reserved2) ||
+               put_user(kp->reserved, &up->reserved)
                        return -EFAULT;
 
        if (V4L2_TYPE_IS_MULTIPLANAR(kp->type)) {
 
                break;
        }
 
-       if (vb->input != UNSET) {
-               b->flags |= V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT;
-               b->input  = vb->input;
-       }
-
        b->field     = vb->field;
        b->timestamp = vb->ts;
        b->bytesused = vb->size;
                        break;
 
                q->bufs[i]->i      = i;
-               q->bufs[i]->input  = UNSET;
                q->bufs[i]->memory = memory;
                q->bufs[i]->bsize  = bsize;
                switch (memory) {
                goto done;
        }
 
-       if (b->flags & V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT) {
-               if (b->input >= q->inputs) {
-                       dprintk(1, "qbuf: wrong input.\n");
-                       goto done;
-               }
-               buf->input = b->input;
-       } else {
-               buf->input = UNSET;
-       }
-
        switch (b->memory) {
        case V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP:
                if (0 == buf->baddr) {
 
        struct vb2_queue *q = vb->vb2_queue;
        int ret;
 
-       /* Copy back data such as timestamp, flags, input, etc. */
+       /* Copy back data such as timestamp, flags, etc. */
        memcpy(b, &vb->v4l2_buf, offsetof(struct v4l2_buffer, m));
-       b->input = vb->v4l2_buf.input;
+       b->reserved2 = vb->v4l2_buf.reserved2;
        b->reserved = vb->v4l2_buf.reserved;
 
        if (V4L2_TYPE_IS_MULTIPLANAR(q->type)) {
 
        vb->v4l2_buf.field = b->field;
        vb->v4l2_buf.timestamp = b->timestamp;
-       vb->v4l2_buf.input = b->input;
        vb->v4l2_buf.flags = b->flags & ~V4L2_BUFFER_STATE_FLAGS;
 
        return 0;
 
                struct v4l2_plane *planes;
        } m;
        __u32                   length;
-       __u32                   input;
+       __u32                   reserved2;
        __u32                   reserved;
 };
 
 /* Buffer is ready, but the data contained within is corrupted. */
 #define V4L2_BUF_FLAG_ERROR    0x0040
 #define V4L2_BUF_FLAG_TIMECODE 0x0100  /* timecode field is valid */
-#define V4L2_BUF_FLAG_INPUT     0x0200  /* input field is valid */
 #define V4L2_BUF_FLAG_PREPARED 0x0400  /* Buffer is prepared for queuing */
 /* Cache handling flags */
 #define V4L2_BUF_FLAG_NO_CACHE_INVALIDATE      0x0800