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authorSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>2017-06-26 12:26:24 +0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-06-26 13:57:09 +0300
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media: docs-rst: Document EBUSY for VIDIOC_S_FMT
VIDIOC_S_FMT may return EBUSY if the device is streaming or there are buffers allocated. Document this. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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@@ -147,3 +147,9 @@ appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the
EINVAL
The struct :c:type:`v4l2_format` ``type`` field is
invalid or the requested buffer type not supported.
+
+EBUSY
+ The device is busy and cannot change the format. This could be
+ because or the device is streaming or buffers are allocated or
+ queued to the driver. Relevant for :ref:`VIDIOC_S_FMT
+ <VIDIOC_G_FMT>` only.