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media: cec: improve cec status documentation 

Clarify the description of status bits, particularly w.r.t. ERROR and NACK.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hansverk@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Hans Verkuil 2018-05-15 03:21:01 -04:00 committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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commit 6aecad6267
2 changed files with 19 additions and 10 deletions
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Documentation/media/kapi/cec-core.rst
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@ -246,7 +246,10 @@ CEC_TX_STATUS_LOW_DRIVE:
CEC_TX_STATUS_ERROR:
some unspecified error occurred: this can be one of ARB_LOST
or LOW_DRIVE if the hardware cannot differentiate or something
else entirely.
else entirely. Some hardware only supports OK and FAIL as the
result of a transmit, i.e. there is no way to differentiate
between the different possible errors. In that case map FAIL
to CEC_TX_STATUS_NACK and not to CEC_TX_STATUS_ERROR.
CEC_TX_STATUS_MAX_RETRIES:
could not transmit the message after trying multiple times.

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Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
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@ -231,26 +231,32 @@ View On' messages from initiator 0xf ('Unregistered') to destination 0 ('TV').
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_OK``
- 0x01
- The message was transmitted successfully. This is mutually
exclusive with :ref:`CEC_TX_STATUS_MAX_RETRIES <CEC-TX-STATUS-MAX-RETRIES>`. Other bits can still
be set if earlier attempts met with failure before the transmit
was eventually successful.
exclusive with :ref:`CEC_TX_STATUS_MAX_RETRIES <CEC-TX-STATUS-MAX-RETRIES>`.
Other bits can still be set if earlier attempts met with failure before
the transmit was eventually successful.
* .. _`CEC-TX-STATUS-ARB-LOST`:
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_ARB_LOST``
- 0x02
- CEC line arbitration was lost.
- CEC line arbitration was lost, i.e. another transmit started at the
same time with a higher priority. Optional status, not all hardware
can detect this error condition.
* .. _`CEC-TX-STATUS-NACK`:
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_NACK``
- 0x04
- Message was not acknowledged.
- Message was not acknowledged. Note that some hardware cannot tell apart
a 'Not Acknowledged' status from other error conditions, i.e. the result
of a transmit is just OK or FAIL. In that case this status will be
returned when the transmit failed.
* .. _`CEC-TX-STATUS-LOW-DRIVE`:
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_LOW_DRIVE``
- 0x08
- Low drive was detected on the CEC bus. This indicates that a
follower detected an error on the bus and requests a
retransmission.
retransmission. Optional status, not all hardware can detect this
error condition.
* .. _`CEC-TX-STATUS-ERROR`:
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_ERROR``
@ -258,14 +264,14 @@ View On' messages from initiator 0xf ('Unregistered') to destination 0 ('TV').
- Some error occurred. This is used for any errors that do not fit
``CEC_TX_STATUS_ARB_LOST`` or ``CEC_TX_STATUS_LOW_DRIVE``, either because
the hardware could not tell which error occurred, or because the hardware
tested for other conditions besides those two.
tested for other conditions besides those two. Optional status.
* .. _`CEC-TX-STATUS-MAX-RETRIES`:
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_MAX_RETRIES``
- 0x20
- The transmit failed after one or more retries. This status bit is
mutually exclusive with :ref:`CEC_TX_STATUS_OK <CEC-TX-STATUS-OK>`. Other bits can still
be set to explain which failures were seen.
mutually exclusive with :ref:`CEC_TX_STATUS_OK <CEC-TX-STATUS-OK>`.
Other bits can still be set to explain which failures were seen.
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