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authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>2010-04-06 11:44:39 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2010-05-19 12:57:09 -0300
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 5155700c206..5b9205a17ae 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/v4l2-framework.txt
@@ -545,12 +545,11 @@ unregister them:
This will remove the device nodes from sysfs (causing udev to remove them
from /dev).
-After video_unregister_device() returns no new opens can be done.
-
-However, in the case of USB devices some application might still have one
-of these device nodes open. You should block all new accesses to read,
-write, poll, etc. except possibly for certain ioctl operations like
-queueing buffers.
+After video_unregister_device() returns no new opens can be done. However,
+in the case of USB devices some application might still have one of these
+device nodes open. So after the unregister all file operations will return
+an error as well, except for the ioctl and unlocked_ioctl file operations:
+those will still be passed on since some buffer ioctls may still be needed.
When the last user of the video device node exits, then the vdev->release()
callback is called and you can do the final cleanup there.