From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:1029 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754305Ab1FZQHy (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:07:54 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:06:07 -0300 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: Linux Media Mailing List , LKML Subject: [PATCH 01/14] [media] v4l2 core: return -ENOIOCTLCMD if an ioctl doesn't exist Message-ID: <20110626130607.5931a2f8@pedra> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input)@casper.infradead.org List-ID: Sender: Currently, -EINVAL is used to return either when an IOCTL is not implemented, or if the ioctl was not implemented. Note: Drivers that don't use video_ioctl2, will need extra patches. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile index 8cb27f3..93722da 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ ERRORS = \ EPERM \ ERANGE \ EPIPE \ + ENOIOCTLCMD \ ESCAPE = \ -e "s/&/\\&/g" \ diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/func-ioctl.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/func-ioctl.xml index b60fd37..0c97ba9 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/func-ioctl.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/func-ioctl.xml @@ -132,14 +132,15 @@ complete the request. &VIDIOC-S-CTRL; ioctl to a value which is out of bounds. + + ENOIOCTLCMD + + The application attempted to use a non-existent ioctl. This is returned by the V4L2 core only. + Applications should be able to handle this error code, in order to detect if a new ioctl is + not implemented at the current Kernel version. Kernel versions lower than 3.0 returns EINVAL to + non-existing ioctl's. + + - - diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml index a7fd76d..7bac5f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml @@ -128,6 +128,13 @@ structs, ioctls) must be noted in more detail in the history chapter applications. --> + 3.0.0 + 2011-06-24 + mcc + Standardize an error code for invalid ioctl. + + + 2.6.39 2011-03-01 mcc, po diff --git a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c index 213ba7d..ebdf762 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/v4l2-ioctl.c @@ -542,12 +542,12 @@ static long __video_do_ioctl(struct file *file, struct v4l2_fh *vfh = NULL; struct v4l2_format f_copy; int use_fh_prio = 0; - long ret = -EINVAL; + long ret = -ENOIOCTLCMD; if (ops == NULL) { printk(KERN_WARNING "videodev: \"%s\" has no ioctl_ops.\n", vfd->name); - return -EINVAL; + return ret; } if ((vfd->debug & V4L2_DEBUG_IOCTL) && -- 1.7.1