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+.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
+.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
+.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
+.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
+.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _AUDIO_GET_CAPABILITIES:
+
+======================
+AUDIO_GET_CAPABILITIES
+======================
+
+Name
+----
+
+AUDIO_GET_CAPABILITIES
+
+.. attention:: This ioctl is deprecated
+
+Synopsis
+--------
+
+.. c:function:: int ioctl(int fd, AUDIO_GET_CAPABILITIES, unsigned int *cap)
+ :name: AUDIO_GET_CAPABILITIES
+
+
+Arguments
+---------
+
+.. flat-table::
+ :header-rows: 0
+ :stub-columns: 0
+
+
+ -
+
+ - int fd
+
+ - File descriptor returned by a previous call to open().
+
+ -
+
+ - unsigned int \*cap
+
+ - Returns a bit array of supported sound formats.
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+This ioctl call asks the Audio Device to tell us about the decoding
+capabilities of the audio hardware.
+
+
+Return Value
+------------
+
+On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set
+appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the
+:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter.