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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-request-ioc-queue.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-request-ioc-queue.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ad55b6b32616 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/mediactl/media-request-ioc-queue.rst @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +.. This file is dual-licensed: you can use it either under the terms +.. of the GPL 2.0 or the GFDL 1.1+ license, at your option. Note that this +.. dual licensing only applies to this file, and not this project as a +.. whole. +.. +.. a) This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or +.. modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.. published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 of +.. the License. +.. +.. This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.. but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.. MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.. GNU General Public License for more details. +.. +.. Or, alternatively, +.. +.. b) Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, +.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software +.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts +.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at +.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst. +.. +.. TODO: replace it to GPL-2.0 OR GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections + +.. _media_request_ioc_queue: + +***************************** +ioctl MEDIA_REQUEST_IOC_QUEUE +***************************** + +Name +==== + +MEDIA_REQUEST_IOC_QUEUE - Queue a request + + +Synopsis +======== + +.. c:function:: int ioctl( int request_fd, MEDIA_REQUEST_IOC_QUEUE ) + :name: MEDIA_REQUEST_IOC_QUEUE + + +Arguments +========= + +``request_fd`` + File descriptor returned by :ref:`MEDIA_IOC_REQUEST_ALLOC`. + + +Description +=========== + +If the media device supports :ref:`requests <media-request-api>`, then +this request ioctl can be used to queue a previously allocated request. + +If the request was successfully queued, then the file descriptor can be +:ref:`polled <request-func-poll>` to wait for the request to complete. + +If the request was already queued before, then ``EBUSY`` is returned. +Other errors can be returned if the contents of the request contained +invalid or inconsistent data, see the next section for a list of +common error codes. On error both the request and driver state are unchanged. + +Once a request is queued, then the driver is required to gracefully handle +errors that occur when the request is applied to the hardware. The +exception is the ``EIO`` error which signals a fatal error that requires +the application to stop streaming to reset the hardware state. + +It is not allowed to mix queuing requests with queuing buffers directly +(without a request). ``EBUSY`` will be returned if the first buffer was +queued directly and you next try to queue a request, or vice versa. + +A request must contain at least one buffer, otherwise this ioctl will +return an ``ENOENT`` error. + +Return Value +============ + +On success 0 is returned, on error -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set +appropriately. The generic error codes are described at the +:ref:`Generic Error Codes <gen-errors>` chapter. + +EBUSY + The request was already queued or the application queued the first + buffer directly, but later attempted to use a request. It is not permitted + to mix the two APIs. +ENOENT + The request did not contain any buffers. All requests are required + to have at least one buffer. This can also be returned if some required + configuration is missing in the request. +ENOMEM + Out of memory when allocating internal data structures for this + request. +EINVAL + The request has invalid data. +EIO + The hardware is in a bad state. To recover, the application needs to + stop streaming to reset the hardware state and then try to restart + streaming. |