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Commit 05a89739 authored by Hans Verkuil's avatar Hans Verkuil Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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[media] gen-errors.rst: document EIO 



Document the EIO error since this can happen anywhere anytime and applications
should be aware of this.

Also fix typo: exaustive -> exhaustive

Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
parent 6ab1a322

Documentation/media/uapi/gen-errors.rst

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       -  Permission denied. Can be returned if the device needs write

	  permission, or some special capabilities is needed (e. g. root)



    -  .. row 11



       -  ``EIO``



       -  I/O error. Typically used when there are problems communicating with

          a hardware device. This could indicate broken or flaky hardware.

	  It's a 'Something is wrong, I give up!' type of error.



.. note::



  #. This list is not exaustive; ioctls may return other error codes.

  #. This list is not exhaustive; ioctls may return other error codes.

     Since errors may have side effects such as a driver reset,

     applications should abort on unexpected errors, or otherwise

     assume that the device is in a bad state.