media: Documentation: media: Document read-only subdevice

Document a new kAPI function to register subdev device nodes in read only
mode and for each affected ioctl report how access is restricted.

Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@jmondi.org>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-crop.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-crop.rst
index 8d9fc13015a6..615e3efdf935 100644
--- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-crop.rst
+++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-crop.rst
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ crop rectangles and stored in the sub-device file handle. Two
 applications querying the same sub-device would thus not interact with
 each other.
 
+If the subdev device node has been registered in read-only mode, calls to
+``VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_CROP`` are only valid if the ``which`` field is set to
+``V4L2_SUBDEV_FORMAT_TRY``, otherwise an error is returned and the errno
+variable is set to ``-EPERM``.
+
 Drivers must not return an error solely because the requested crop
 rectangle doesn't match the device capabilities. They must instead
 modify the rectangle to match what the hardware can provide. The
@@ -123,3 +128,7 @@ EINVAL
     references a non-existing pad, the ``which`` field references a
     non-existing format, or cropping is not supported on the given
     subdev pad.
+
+EPERM
+    The ``VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_CROP`` ioctl has been called on a read-only subdevice
+    and the ``which`` field is set to ``V4L2_SUBDEV_FORMAT_ACTIVE``.