Re: [PATCH] Support for write-only controls
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:44:16 -0700
- From: Brandon Philips <brandon@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for write-only controls
On 15:12 Wed 13 Feb 2008, Brandon Philips wrote:
> On 01:01 Tue 18 Dec 2007, Martin Rubli wrote:
> > Thanks a lot for all your feedback and the constructive discussion and sorry
> > for the delay while I was without Internet on the weekend. I'll try to
> > summarize what we have so far:
> >
> > Write-only controls:
> >
> > It seems, everybody likes EACCES. Michael, maybe we could get some feedback
> > from you on this? It would be nice to change the spec, so that EACCES also
> > becomes the error for writing read-only controls--it seems appropriate. But
> > if for some reason we can't change that we should probably make the
> > write-only controls consistent and return EINVAL as well.
> >
> > Unusable controls due to device communication error:
> >
> > The easiest solution seems to be to set the V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DISABLED flag as
> > was suggested. The documentation currently says "permanently disabled and
> > should be ignored by the application" which I think is exactly what applies
> > to the situation. The V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_NEXT_CTRL would still be respected by
> > drivers supporting the extended control enumeration, so no need to the spec
> > is required. But I would still add a short paragraph about the first part as
> > a guide for future implementations and a witness of this thread. ;-)
> >
> > As soon as everyone agrees on this, I will propose new patches. Let me know
> > what you think ...
>
Ping. I never saw patches come across for this.
Thanks,
Brandon
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