linux-kernel - [PATCH v10 16/21] media: docs: Document the behaviour of uvcvideo driver

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Date:   Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:29:18 +0200
From:   Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
To:     Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        tfiga@...omium.org
Cc:     Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v10 16/21] media: docs: Document the behaviour of uvcvideo driver

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@...asonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@...omium.org>
---
 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.
-- 
2.32.0.288.g62a8d224e6-goog