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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>2019-05-15 03:50:41 -0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>2019-05-23 05:33:33 -0400
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media: cec-ioc-receive.rst: document CEC_MSG_FL_RAW
Document this new cec_msg flag.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst15
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
index c3a685ff05cb..4137903d672e 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
@@ -223,6 +223,18 @@ 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,
+	then no validation takes place and the message is transmitted as-is.
+	This is useful when debugging CEC issues.
+	This flag is only allowed if the process has the ``CAP_SYS_RAWIO``
+	capability. If that is not set, then the ``EPERM`` error code is
+	returned.
+
 
 .. tabularcolumns:: |p{5.6cm}|p{0.9cm}|p{11.0cm}|
 
@@ -358,7 +370,8 @@ 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 from a process that
+    did not have the ``CAP_SYS_RAWIO`` capability.
 
 ENONET
     The CEC adapter is not configured, i.e. :ref:`ioctl CEC_ADAP_S_LOG_ADDRS <CEC_ADAP_S_LOG_ADDRS>`