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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2010-04-06 10:44:39 -0400
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-05-19 11:57:09 -0400
commitdd1ad942ac0b1bb7f72f9f3d822ec937aa07dc4d (patch)
tree7a02aa76d5b1b4c04f7d6493b0516577dfe31d57 /Documentation/video4linux
parent626e2acfdce76b5a6a1daa4bc8ef556d507f5941 (diff)
V4L/DVB: v4l2-framework.txt: fix incorrect statement
After unregister_device all fileops are blocked, except for ioctls. So it is not just the open that is blocked, others are as well. Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt11
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
index 5155700c206b..5b9205a17ae7 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -545,12 +545,11 @@ unregister them:
545This will remove the device nodes from sysfs (causing udev to remove them 545This will remove the device nodes from sysfs (causing udev to remove them
546from /dev). 546from /dev).
547 547
548After video_unregister_device() returns no new opens can be done. 548After video_unregister_device() returns no new opens can be done. However,
549 549in the case of USB devices some application might still have one of these
550However, in the case of USB devices some application might still have one 550device nodes open. So after the unregister all file operations will return
551of these device nodes open. You should block all new accesses to read, 551an error as well, except for the ioctl and unlocked_ioctl file operations:
552write, poll, etc. except possibly for certain ioctl operations like 552those will still be passed on since some buffer ioctls may still be needed.
553queueing buffers.
554 553
555When the last user of the video device node exits, then the vdev->release() 554When the last user of the video device node exits, then the vdev->release()
556callback is called and you can do the final cleanup there. 555callback is called and you can do the final cleanup there.