[media] DocBook: Use the generic error code page also for MC API

Instead of having their own generic error codes at the MC API, move
its section to the generic one and be sure that all media ioctl's
will point to it.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab 2011-07-05 11:37:58 -03:00
parent 43c1daa47d
commit dfcf4f9d97
3 changed files with 18 additions and 49 deletions

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<tgroup cols="2">
&cs-str;
<tbody valign="top">
<!-- Keep it ordered alphabetically -->
<row>
<entry>EBADF</entry>
<entry><parameter>fd</parameter> is not a valid open file descriptor.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>EBUSY</entry>
<entry>The ioctl can't be handled because the device is busy. This is
@ -14,8 +19,17 @@
must not be retried without performing another action to fix the
problem first (typically: stop the stream before retrying).</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>EFAULT</entry>
<entry><parameter>fd</parameter> is not a valid open file descriptor.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>EINVAL</entry>
<entry>One or more of the ioctl parameters are invalid. This is a widely
used error code. See the individual ioctl requests for actual causes.</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>EINVAL or ENOTTY</entry>
<entry>The ioctl is not supported by the driver, actually meaning that
the required functionality is not available.</entry>
</row>
@ -25,7 +39,7 @@
</row>
<row>
<entry>ENOSPC</entry>
<entry>On USB devices, the stream ioctl's can return this error meaning
<entry>On USB devices, the stream ioctl's can return this error, meaning
that this request would overcommit the usb bandwidth reserved
for periodic transfers (up to 80% of the USB bandwidth).</entry>
</row>

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</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return Value</title>
<para><function>ioctl()</function> returns <returnvalue>0</returnvalue> on
success. On failure, <returnvalue>-1</returnvalue> is returned, and the
<varname>errno</varname> variable is set appropriately. Generic error codes
are listed below, and request-specific error codes are listed in the
&return-value;
<para>Request-specific error codes are listed in the
individual requests descriptions.</para>
<para>When an ioctl that takes an output or read/write parameter fails,
the parameter remains unmodified.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>EBADF</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para><parameter>fd</parameter> is not a valid open file descriptor.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>EFAULT</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para><parameter>argp</parameter> references an inaccessible memory
area.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>EINVAL</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <parameter>request</parameter> or the data pointed to by
<parameter>argp</parameter> is not valid. This is a very common error
code, see the individual ioctl requests listed in
<xref linkend="media-user-func" /> for actual causes.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>ENOMEM</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para>Insufficient kernel memory was available to complete the
request.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><errorcode>ENOTTY</errorcode></term>
<listitem>
<para><parameter>fd</parameter> is not associated with a character
special device.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
</refentry>

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</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>Return value</title>
<para>This function doesn't return specific error codes.</para>
&return-value;
</refsect1>
</refentry>