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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml index 9bf9ca7f46dc..4268c658652f 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ <row> <entry>EINVAL or ENOTTY</entry> <entry>The ioctl is not supported by the driver, actually meaning that - the required functionality is not available.</entry> + the required functionality is not available, or the file + descriptor is not for a media device.</entry> </row> <row> <entry>ENOMEM</entry> @@ -46,3 +47,10 @@ </tbody> </tgroup> </table> + +<para>Note 1: ioctls may return other error codes. Since errors may have side +effects such as a driver reset, applications should abort on unexpected errors. +</para> + +<para>Note 2: Request-specific error codes are listed in the individual +requests descriptions.</para> |