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Commit 7ec2b3b9 authored by Hans Verkuil's avatar Hans Verkuil Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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media: cec: add new tx/rx status bits to detect aborts/timeouts



If the HDMI cable is disconnected or the CEC adapter is manually
unconfigured, then all pending transmits and wait-for-replies are
aborted. Signal this with new status bits (CEC_RX/TX_STATUS_ABORTED).

If due to (usually) a driver bug a transmit never ends (i.e. the
transmit_done was never called by the driver), then when this times
out the message is marked with CEC_TX_STATUS_TIMEOUT.

This should not happen and is an indication of a driver bug.

Without a separate status bit for this it was impossible to detect
this from userspace.

The 'transmit timed out' kernel message is now a warning, so this
should be more prominent in the kernel log as well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>      # for v4.18 and up
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
parent 81e33279
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