---
For naughty people only - this won't be set by default anywhere.

 doc/APIchanges       |  3 +++
 libavcodec/avcodec.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/APIchanges b/doc/APIchanges
index a0ca3b7ac..5da821c90 100644
--- a/doc/APIchanges
+++ b/doc/APIchanges
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@ libavutil:     2017-03-23
 
 API changes, most recent first:
 
+2017-04-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 58.x.y+1 - avcodec.h
+  Add AV_HWACCEL_FLAG_ALLOW_PROFILE_MISMATCH.
+
 2017-03-xx - xxxxxxx - lavc 57.37.0 - avcodec.h
   Add AVCodecContext.hwaccel_flags field. This will control some hwaccels at
   a later point.
diff --git a/libavcodec/avcodec.h b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
index 1c58fe2d6..2aa70ca4f 100644
--- a/libavcodec/avcodec.h
+++ b/libavcodec/avcodec.h
@@ -3004,6 +3004,20 @@ typedef struct AVHWAccel {
 #define AV_HWACCEL_FLAG_ALLOW_HIGH_DEPTH (1 << 1)
 
 /**
+ * Hardware acceleration should still be attempted for decoding when the
+ * codec profile does not match the reported capabilities of the hardware.
+ *
+ * For example, this can be used to try to decode baseline profile H.264
+ * streams in hardware - it will often succeed, because many streams marked
+ * as baseline profile actually conform to constrained baseline profile.
+ *
+ * @warning If the stream is actually not supported then the behaviour is
+ *          undefined, and may include returning entirely incorrect output
+ *          while indicating success.
+ */
+#define AV_HWACCEL_FLAG_ALLOW_PROFILE_MISMATCH (1 << 2)
+
+/**
  * @}
  */
 
-- 
2.11.0
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