Re: soc_camera, v4l2 api, gstreamer: setting errno ?

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Hi Philipp,

On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:13:18 Philipp Wiesner wrote:
> I'm having some trouble using gstreamer with soc_camera and am a
> modified tw9910 driver. I had difficulties compiling the latest sources
> for my target so I'm using old kernel and gstreamer versions. But my
> question may still be valid, because the problem doesn't seem to be fixed
> and this may be interesting for driver programming in the future.
> 
> The part I'm suspecting is
> 
>   if (v4l2_ioctl (fd, VIDIOC_S_FMT, &format) < 0) {
>     if (errno != EINVAL)
>       goto set_fmt_failed;
> 
> [v4l2src_calls.c,1223]
> According to V4L2 api documentation drivers should set errno, but all
>  drivers I've seen in the soc_camera framework (including soc_camera.c)
>  only 'return -errno'. Should device drivers (like tw9910) set errno or
>  should soc_camera use return values and set errno? Is it correct that none
>  of them happens at the moment?

errno is a userspace variable. Kernel drivers return a negative error code 
which is stored into errno by the ioctl() function in glibc.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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