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| author | Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com> | 2018-08-23 13:33:49 +0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org> | 2018-09-11 16:46:41 +0300 |
| commit | b6b84557eca71ae0631be1567fec85870a2c1b93 (patch) | |
| tree | 467c9aab7d502f17d8388540f20bb237d68d93bf /Documentation/media/uapi/v4l | |
| parent | 34b41472465b1b5a2c6c63255431fb2c1a450af1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b6b84557eca71ae0631be1567fec85870a2c1b93.tar.xz | |
media: v4l2-ctrls: return -EACCES if request wasn't completed
For now (this might be relaxed in the future) we do not allow getting
controls from a request that isn't completed. In that case we return
-EACCES. Update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomasz Figa <tfiga@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/media/uapi/v4l')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst index 9c56a9b6e98a..ad8908ce3095 100644 --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst @@ -107,13 +107,12 @@ then ``EINVAL`` will be returned. An attempt to call :ref:`VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS <VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS>` for a request that has already been queued will result in an ``EBUSY`` error. -If ``request_fd`` is specified and ``which`` is set to ``V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_REQUEST_VAL`` -during a call to :ref:`VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS <VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS>`, then the -returned values will be the values currently set for the request (or the -hardware value if none is set) if the request has not yet been queued, or the -values of the controls at the time of request completion if it has already -completed. Attempting to get controls while the request has been queued but -not yet completed will result in an ``EBUSY`` error. +If ``request_fd`` is specified and ``which`` is set to +``V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_REQUEST_VAL`` during a call to +:ref:`VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS <VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS>`, then it will return the +values of the controls at the time of request completion. +If the request is not yet completed, then this will result in an +``EACCES`` error. The driver will only set/get these controls if all control values are correct. This prevents the situation where only some of the controls @@ -405,8 +404,9 @@ ENOSPC and this error code is returned. EACCES - Attempt to try or set a read-only control or to get a write-only - control. + Attempt to try or set a read-only control, or to get a write-only + control, or to get a control from a request that has not yet been + completed. EPERM The ``which`` field was set to ``V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_REQUEST_VAL`` but the |