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From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: partial revert of "uvcvideo: set error_idx properly"
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 14:40:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51028B5D.8080607@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301251140.13707.hverkuil@xs4all.nl>

Hi,

On 01/25/2013 11:40 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:

<snip>

>> What I did notice is that pwc_vidioc_try_fmt returns EINVAL when
>> an unsupported pixelformat is requested. IIRC we agreed that the
>> correct behavior in this case is to instead just change the
>> pixelformat to a default format, so I'll write a patch fixing
>> this.
>
> There are issues with that idea in the case of TV capture cards, since
> some important apps (tvtime and mythtv to a lesser extent) assume -EINVAL
> in the case of unsupported pixelformats.

Oh, I thought we agreed on never returning EINVAL accept for on invalid
buffer types in Barcelona ?

Regards,

Hans

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-25 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]     ` <20121225025648.5208189a@redhat.com>
2013-01-25  9:51       ` partial revert of "uvcvideo: set error_idx properly" Hans de Goede
2013-01-25 10:40         ` Hans Verkuil
2013-01-25 13:40           ` Hans de Goede [this message]
2013-01-25 13:42             ` Hans Verkuil
2013-01-27 13:57               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-01-27 14:06           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-01-28 10:04             ` Hans de Goede

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