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authorHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>2015-09-07 10:12:58 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-06-28 11:45:24 -0300
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[media] DocBook/media: add CEC documentation
Add DocBook documentation for the CEC API. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com> [k.debski@samsung.com: add documentation for passthrough mode] [k.debski@samsung.com: minor fixes and change of reserved field sizes] Signed-off-by: Kamil Debski <kamil@wypas.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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+<refentry id="cec-func-open">
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>cec open()</refentrytitle>
+ &manvol;
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>cec-open</refname>
+ <refpurpose>Open a cec device</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <funcsynopsis>
+ <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
+ <funcprototype>
+ <funcdef>int <function>open</function></funcdef>
+ <paramdef>const char *<parameter>device_name</parameter></paramdef>
+ <paramdef>int <parameter>flags</parameter></paramdef>
+ </funcprototype>
+ </funcsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Arguments</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>device_name</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Device to be opened.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>flags</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Open flags. Access mode must be <constant>O_RDWR</constant>.
+ </para>
+ <para>When the <constant>O_NONBLOCK</constant> flag is
+given, the &CEC-RECEIVE; ioctl will return &EAGAIN; when no message is
+available, and the &CEC-TRANSMIT;, &CEC-ADAP-S-PHYS-ADDR; and
+&CEC-ADAP-S-LOG-ADDRS; ioctls all act in non-blocking mode.</para>
+ <para>Other flags have no effect.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+ <para>
+ Note: this documents the proposed CEC API. This API is not yet finalized and
+ is currently only available as a staging kernel module.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>To open a cec device applications call <function>open()</function>
+ with the desired device name. The function has no side effects; the device
+ configuration remain unchanged.</para>
+ <para>When the device is opened in read-only mode, attempts to modify its
+ configuration will result in an error, and <varname>errno</varname> will be
+ set to <errorcode>EBADF</errorcode>.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Return Value</title>
+
+ <para><function>open</function> returns the new file descriptor on success.
+ On error, -1 is returned, and <varname>errno</varname> is set appropriately.
+ Possible error codes include:</para>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><errorcode>EACCES</errorcode></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The requested access to the file is not allowed.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><errorcode>EMFILE</errorcode></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The process already has the maximum number of files open.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><errorcode>ENFILE</errorcode></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>The system limit on the total number of open files has been
+ reached.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><errorcode>ENOMEM</errorcode></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Insufficient kernel memory was available.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><errorcode>ENXIO</errorcode></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>No device corresponding to this device special file exists.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>