[media] v4l: subdev: Generic ioctl support

Instead of returning an error when receiving an ioctl call with an
unsupported command, forward the call to the subdev core::ioctl handler.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index 77d96f4e3f50..f2df31b088c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -405,6 +405,11 @@ VIDIOC_UNSUBSCRIBE_EVENT
         To properly support events, the poll() file operation is also
         implemented.
 
+Private ioctls
+
+        All ioctls not in the above list are passed directly to the sub-device
+        driver through the core::ioctl operation.
+
 
 I2C sub-device drivers
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