The uvc driver relies on the camera firmware to keep the control states
and therefore is not capable of changing an inactive control.
Allow returning -EACCES in those cases.
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.rst | 3 +++
Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.rst
index 80e8c63d530f..fd09677f64f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.rst
@@ -95,3 +95,6 @@ EBUSY
EACCES
Attempt to set a read-only control or to get a write-only control.
+
+ Or if there is an attempt to set an inactive control and the driver is
+ not capable of caching the new value until the control is active again.
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst
index 3ba22983d21f..b42b822e9ede 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.rst
@@ -458,3 +458,6 @@ EACCES
Or the ``which`` field was set to ``V4L2_CTRL_WHICH_REQUEST_VAL`` but the
device does not support requests.
+
+ Or if there is an attempt to set an inactive control and the driver is
+ not capable of caching the new value until the control is active again.
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