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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: [PATCHv2 7/7] cec-ioc-g-mode.rst: be more specific when EPERM is returned
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 11:55:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190522095550.22026-8-hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190522095550.22026-1-hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>

Document which capability is required, rather than just saying
that "root permissions" are required.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
---
 Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-g-mode.rst | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-g-mode.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-g-mode.rst
index c53bb5f73f0d..d0902f356d65 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-g-mode.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-g-mode.rst
@@ -294,7 +294,8 @@ EINVAL
     The requested mode is invalid.
 
 EPERM
-    Monitor mode is requested without having root permissions
+    Monitor mode is requested, but the process does have the ``CAP_NET_ADMIN``
+    capability.
 
 EBUSY
     Someone else is already an exclusive follower or initiator.
-- 
2.20.1


      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-05-22  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-22  9:55 [PATCHv2 0/7] cec: various improvements Hans Verkuil
2019-05-22  9:55 ` [PATCHv2 1/7] cec: cec_transmit_msg_fh: do sanity checks first Hans Verkuil
2019-05-22  9:55 ` [PATCHv2 2/7] cec: move check from cec_transmit to cec_transmit_msg_fh Hans Verkuil
2019-05-22  9:55 ` [PATCHv2 3/7] cec: add CEC_MSG_FL_RAW flag and msg_is_raw helper function Hans Verkuil
2019-05-22  9:55 ` [PATCHv2 4/7] cec-ioc-receive.rst: document CEC_MSG_FL_RAW Hans Verkuil
2019-05-22  9:55 ` [PATCHv2 5/7] cec: support CEC_MSG_FL_RAW Hans Verkuil
2019-05-22  9:55 ` [PATCHv2 6/7] cec: allow any initiator for Ping and Image/Text View On Hans Verkuil
2019-05-22  9:55 ` Hans Verkuil [this message]

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