Re: [PATCH 1/1] v4l: Document EACCES in VIDIOC_G_CTRL and VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS

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Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Sakari,

Hi, Laurent!

Thanks for the comments!

> On Friday 13 May 2011 15:24:13 Sakari Ailus wrote:
>> VIDIOC_G_CTRL and VIDIOC_G_EXT_CTRLS return EACCES when setting a read-only
>> control or getting a write-only control.  Document this.
> 
> You might want to modify the commit message to include VIDIOC_S_CTRL and 
> VIDIOC_S_EXT_CTRLS. Setting a control with the VIDIOC_G_(EXT_)CTRL(S) ioctls 
> is a bit difficult :-)

I'll do that. I was thinking of the documentation when reading this, not
the actual ioctls. ;-)

>> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.xml      |    7 +++++++
>>  Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml |    7 +++++++
>>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.xml
>> b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.xml index 8b5e6ff..5146d00
>> 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.xml
>> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ctrl.xml
>> @@ -117,6 +117,13 @@ because another applications took over control of the
>> device function this control belongs to.</para>
>>  	</listitem>
>>        </varlistentry>
>> +      <varlistentry>
>> +	<term><errorcode>EACCES</errorcode></term>
>> +	<listitem>
>> +	  <para>Attempt to set a read-only control or to get a
>> +	  write-only control.</para>
> 
> Should you s/set/try or set/ ?

No, since you can only try controls using the TRY_EXT_CTRLS. There is no
VIDIOC_TRY_CTRL.

>> +	</listitem>
>> +      </varlistentry>
>>      </variablelist>
>>    </refsect1>
>>  </refentry>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml
>> b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml index 3aa7f8f..5e73517
>> 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml
>> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml
>> @@ -294,6 +294,13 @@ The field <structfield>size</structfield> is set to a
>> value that is enough to store the payload and this error code is
>> returned.</para>
>>  	</listitem>
>>        </varlistentry>
>> +      <varlistentry>
>> +	<term><errorcode>EACCES</errorcode></term>
>> +	<listitem>
>> +	  <para>Attempt to try or set a read-only control or to get a
>> +	  write-only control.</para>
>> +	</listitem>
>> +      </varlistentry>
>>      </variablelist>
>>    </refsect1>
>>  </refentry>
> 


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Sakari Ailus
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