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From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] cec-ioc-receive.rst: document CEC_MSG_FL_RAW
Date: Wed, 15 May 2019 09:58:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190515075826.18073-4-hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190515075826.18073-1-hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>

Document this new cec_msg flag.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
---
 Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
index c3a685ff05cb..22187a659525 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
@@ -223,6 +223,16 @@ View On' messages from initiator 0xf ('Unregistered') to destination 0 ('TV').
 	result of the :ref:`ioctl CEC_TRANSMIT <CEC_TRANSMIT>`, and once via
 	:ref:`ioctl CEC_RECEIVE <CEC_RECEIVE>`.
 
+    * .. _`CEC-MSG-FL-RAW`:
+
+      - ``CEC_MSG_FL_RAW``
+      - 2
+      - Normally CEC messages are validated before transmitting them. If this
+        flag is set when :ref:`ioctl CEC_TRANSMIT <CEC_TRANSMIT>` is called *and*
+	the ioctl was called with superuser privileges, then no validation takes
+	place and the message is transmitted as-is. This is useful when
+	debugging CEC issues.
+
 
 .. tabularcolumns:: |p{5.6cm}|p{0.9cm}|p{11.0cm}|
 
@@ -358,7 +368,8 @@ ENOTTY
 
 EPERM
     The CEC adapter is not configured, i.e. :ref:`ioctl CEC_ADAP_S_LOG_ADDRS <CEC_ADAP_S_LOG_ADDRS>`
-    has never been called.
+    has never been called, or ``CEC_MSG_FL_RAW`` was used without superuser
+    privileges.
 
 ENONET
     The CEC adapter is not configured, i.e. :ref:`ioctl CEC_ADAP_S_LOG_ADDRS <CEC_ADAP_S_LOG_ADDRS>`
-- 
2.20.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-15  7:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-15  7:58 [PATCH 0/6] cec: various improvements Hans Verkuil
2019-05-15  7:58 ` [PATCH 1/6] cec: cec_transmit_msg_fh: do sanity checks first Hans Verkuil
2019-05-15  7:58 ` [PATCH 2/6] cec: move check from cec_transmit to cec_transmit_msg_fh Hans Verkuil
2019-05-15  7:58 ` Hans Verkuil [this message]
2019-05-15  7:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] cec: add CEC_MSG_FL_RAW flag and msg_is_raw helper function Hans Verkuil
2019-05-15  7:58 ` [PATCH 5/6] cec: support CEC_MSG_FL_RAW Hans Verkuil
2019-05-15  7:58 ` [PATCH 6/6] cec: allow any initiator for Ping and Image/Text View On Hans Verkuil

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