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authorHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>2016-11-01 11:07:17 -0200
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2016-11-16 15:34:55 -0200
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[media] cec: accept two replies for CEC_MSG_INITIATE_ARC
The CEC_MSG_INITIATE_ARC message is special since it is the ONLY CEC message that accepts two possible valid replies: CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_INITIATED and CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_TERMINATED. So if the transmitted message is CEC_MSG_INITIATE_ARC and the remote side replied with CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_INITIATED or CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_TERMINATED, then a msg->reply value of CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_INITIATED or CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_TERMINATED will match either reply. I thought about either adding a second reply2 field, but that's ugly for all other messages that have only one reply, and what if in the future a new message is added that can have three replies? Another option would be to add a cec_msg flag, but really, the combination of CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_INITIATED and a reply value of one of the two possible replies already functions as a flag. Another advantage of this approach is that it is safe to re-use a cec_msg struct. No need to zero a flags field or a reply2 field. So since this really is an exception in the CEC specification, I decided to implement it as an exception as well. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
index b4dffd2f7dfa..bdf015b1d1dc 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ result.
Feature Abort reply. In this case ``rx_status`` will either be set
to :ref:`CEC_RX_STATUS_TIMEOUT <CEC-RX-STATUS-TIMEOUT>` or
:ref:`CEC_RX_STATUS_FEATURE_ABORT <CEC-RX-STATUS-FEATURE-ABORT>`.
+
+ If the transmitter message is ``CEC_MSG_INITIATE_ARC`` then the ``reply``
+ values ``CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_INITIATED`` and ``CEC_MSG_REPORT_ARC_TERMINATED``
+ are processed differently: either value will match both possible replies.
+ The reason is that the ``CEC_MSG_INITIATE_ARC`` message is the only CEC
+ message that has two possible replies other than Feature Abort. The
+ ``reply`` field will be updated with the actual reply so that it is
+ synchronized with the contents of the received message.
* - __u8
- ``rx_status``
- The status bits of the received message. See