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authorLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>2010-02-26 12:23:10 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2011-03-22 04:53:45 -0300
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[media] v4l: subdev: Generic ioctl support
Instead of returning an error when receiving an ioctl call with an unsupported command, forward the call to the subdev core::ioctl handler. Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
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--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -405,6 +405,11 @@ VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT
To properly support events, the poll() file operation is also
implemented.
+Private ioctls
+
+ All ioctls not in the above list are passed directly to the sub-device
+ driver through the core::ioctl operation.
+
I2C sub-device drivers
----------------------