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authorHans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>2018-08-23 06:33:49 -0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2018-09-11 09:46:41 -0400
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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>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst18
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