Re: [PATCH RFCv3 00/17] Error code fixes and return -ENOTTY for no-ioctl

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On Wednesday, July 06, 2011 20:04:04 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> This patch series contain some fixes on how error codes are handled
> at the media API's. It consists on two parts. 
> 
> The first part have the DocBook changes:
> - Create a generic errno xml file, used by all media API's
>   (V4L, MC, LIRC and DVB);
> - Move the generic errorcodes to the new file;
> - Removes code duplication/inconsistency along the several
>   API files;
> - Removes two bogus undefined errorcodes: EINTERNAL/ENOSIGNAL
>   from the ioctl's.
> 
> The second part have the code changes:
> - Some fixes on a few drivers that use EFAULT on a wrong
>   way, and not compliant with the DVB API;
> - The usage of ENOTTY meaning that no ioctl is implemented.

Except for patch 03/17 (see my comments there):

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx>

Regards,

	Hans

> TODO:
> - Some DVB open/close API description are mentioning the
>   non-existent EINTERNAL error code;
> - firedtv driver needs to be fixed with respect to the usage
>   of -EFAULT (Stefan c/c).
> - The DVB driver uses a couple different error codes to mean that
>   an ioctl is not implemented: ENOSYS and EOPNOTSUPP. The last
>   one is used on most places. It would be great to standardize
>   this error code as well, but further study is required.
> - There are still several error codes not present at gen-errors.xml.
>   A match between what's currently used at the drivers and the
>   API is needed. Probably, both code and DocBook needs to be
>   changed, as, on several cases, different drivers return different
>   error codes for the same error.
> 
> Mauro Carvalho Chehab (17):
>   [media] DocBook: Add a chapter to describe media errors
>   [media] DocBook: Use the generic ioctl error codes for all V4L
>     ioctl's
>   [media] DocBook: Use the generic error code page also for MC API
>   [media] DocBook/media-ioc-setup-link.xml: Remove EBUSY
>   [media] DocBook: Remove V4L generic error description for ioctl()
>   [media] DocBook: Add an error code session for LIRC interface
>   [media] DocBook: Add return error codes to LIRC ioctl session
>   [media] siano: bad parameter is -EINVAL and not -EFAULT
>   [media] nxt6000: i2c bus error should return -EIO
>   [media] DVB: Point to the generic error chapter
>   [media] DocBook/audio.xml: Remove generic errors
>   [media] DocBook/demux.xml: Remove generic errors
>   [media] dvb-bt8xx: Don't return -EFAULT when a device is not found
>   [media] DocBook/dvb: Use generic descriptions for the frontend API
>   [media] DocBook/dvb: Use generic descriptions for the video API
>   [media] v4l2 core: return -ENOTTY if an ioctl doesn't exist
>   [media] return -ENOTTY for unsupported ioctl's at legacy drivers
> 
>  Documentation/DocBook/.gitignore                   |    2 +
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile               |   42 ++-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/audio.xml          |  372 +--------------
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/ca.xml             |    6 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/demux.xml          |  121 +-----
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/dvbproperty.xml    |   23 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/frontend.xml       |  487 +-------------------
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/dvb/video.xml          |  418 +----------------
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/func-ioctl.xml     |   72 +---
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml     |   77 +++
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/lirc_device_interface.xml    |    4 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/media-func-ioctl.xml         |   47 +--
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-device-info.xml    |    3 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/media-ioc-setup-link.xml     |    9 -
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml           |    2 +
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-cropcap.xml |   13 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dbg-g-chip-ident.xml  |   11 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dbg-g-register.xml    |   17 -
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-dqevent.xml |   10 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-encoder-cmd.xml       |   11 +-
>  .../media/v4l/vidioc-enum-frameintervals.xml       |   11 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-enum-framesizes.xml   |   11 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-enumaudio.xml         |   12 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-enumaudioout.xml      |   12 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-audio.xml |   18 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-audioout.xml        |   18 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-crop.xml  |   17 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-dv-preset.xml       |   12 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-dv-timings.xml      |   11 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-enc-index.xml       |   17 -
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fbuf.xml  |   19 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-fmt.xml   |   20 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-input.xml |   19 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-jpegcomp.xml        |   17 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-output.xml          |   18 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml  |   17 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-priority.xml        |    3 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-sliced-vbi-cap.xml  |   11 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-std.xml   |    9 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-log-status.xml        |   17 -
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-overlay.xml |   11 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-qbuf.xml    |   17 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-query-dv-preset.xml   |   22 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querycap.xml          |   19 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-querystd.xml          |   23 -
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-reqbufs.xml |   16 -
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-streamon.xml          |   14 +-
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-fmt.xml      |    3 +
>  .../DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subscribe-event.xml   |   11 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media_api.tmpl               |    9 +-
>  drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dvb-bt8xx.c                |    4 +-
>  drivers/media/dvb/frontends/nxt6000.c              |    2 +-
>  drivers/media/dvb/siano/smscoreapi.c               |    2 +-
>  drivers/media/video/et61x251/et61x251_core.c       |   10 +-
>  drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-v4l2.c         |    7 +-
>  drivers/media/video/sn9c102/sn9c102_core.c         |   10 +-
>  drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c                 |    2 +-
>  drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c                   |    4 +-
>  58 files changed, 267 insertions(+), 1955 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/gen-errors.xml
> 
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