[linux-dvb] Re: av7110 error handling

[Gregor Lawatscheck <gpel@mpex.net>]

At 13:09 26/06/2003, you wrote:
> I asked myself what might be the reason that most of the error conditions 
> returned by 'OutCommand' or 'Start/StopHWFilter' are ignored and not 
> returned to the calling program (returning -1 from the ioctl handler and 
> setting errno to a proper value).
>
> As it is now, most of the ioctl's seem to be fire and forget, I do for 
> example a STOP_DEMUX, get a return value of 0 but it did not work at all, 
> continue with the program execution and things get worse.
Good work. You might want to have a look at the older drivers. Does 0.9.4 
do this differently? Afaik there were no problems with OutCom errors or 
HWFilters pre-head. Maybe it wasn't implemented at all or the ioctl's were 
actually handled?




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