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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/cec/cec-func-ioctl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/cec/cec-func-ioctl.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d16a479aacb1 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/cec/cec-func-ioctl.rst @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.. 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 + +.. _cec-func-ioctl: + +*********** +cec ioctl() +*********** + +Name +==== + +cec-ioctl - Control a cec device + +Synopsis +======== + +.. code-block:: c + + #include <sys/ioctl.h> + + +.. c:function:: int ioctl( int fd, int request, void *argp ) + :name: cec-ioctl + +Arguments +========= + +``fd`` + File descriptor returned by :c:func:`open() <cec-open>`. + +``request`` + CEC ioctl request code as defined in the cec.h header file, for + example :ref:`CEC_ADAP_G_CAPS <CEC_ADAP_G_CAPS>`. + +``argp`` + Pointer to a request-specific structure. + + +Description +=========== + +The :c:func:`ioctl() <cec-ioctl>` function manipulates cec device parameters. The +argument ``fd`` must be an open file descriptor. + +The ioctl ``request`` code specifies the cec function to be called. It +has encoded in it whether the argument is an input, output or read/write +parameter, and the size of the argument ``argp`` in bytes. + +Macros and structures definitions specifying cec ioctl requests and +their parameters are located in the cec.h header file. All cec ioctl +requests, their respective function and parameters are specified in +:ref:`cec-user-func`. + + +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. + +Request-specific error codes are listed in the individual requests +descriptions. + +When an ioctl that takes an output or read/write parameter fails, the +parameter remains unmodified. |