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-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/kapi/cec-core.rst7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst10
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/media/kapi/cec-core.rst b/Documentation/media/kapi/cec-core.rst
index 28866259998c..d37e107f2fde 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/kapi/cec-core.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/kapi/cec-core.rst
@@ -227,8 +227,8 @@ CEC_TX_STATUS_LOW_DRIVE:
retransmission.
CEC_TX_STATUS_ERROR:
- some unspecified error occurred: this can be one of
- the previous two if the hardware cannot differentiate or something
+ some unspecified error occurred: this can be one of ARB_LOST
+ or LOW_DRIVE if the hardware cannot differentiate or something
else entirely.
CEC_TX_STATUS_MAX_RETRIES:
@@ -238,6 +238,9 @@ CEC_TX_STATUS_MAX_RETRIES:
doesn't have to make another attempt to transmit the message
since the hardware did that already.
+The hardware must be able to differentiate between OK, NACK and 'something
+else'.
+
The \*_cnt arguments are the number of error conditions that were seen.
This may be 0 if no information is available. Drivers that do not support
hardware retry can just set the counter corresponding to the transmit error
diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
index 0f397c535a4c..bdad4b197bcd 100644
--- a/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
+++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/cec/cec-ioc-receive.rst
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ View On' messages from initiator 0xf ('Unregistered') to destination 0 ('TV').
- ``tx_status``
- The status bits of the transmitted message. See
:ref:`cec-tx-status` for the possible status values. It is 0 if
- this messages was received, not transmitted.
+ this message was received, not transmitted.
* - __u8
- ``msg[16]``
- The message payload. For :ref:`ioctl CEC_TRANSMIT <CEC_TRANSMIT>` this is filled in by the
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ View On' messages from initiator 0xf ('Unregistered') to destination 0 ('TV').
- ``tx_status``
- The status bits of the transmitted message. See
:ref:`cec-tx-status` for the possible status values. It is 0 if
- this messages was received, not transmitted.
+ this message was received, not transmitted.
* - __u8
- ``tx_arb_lost_cnt``
- A counter of the number of transmit attempts that resulted in the
@@ -256,9 +256,9 @@ View On' messages from initiator 0xf ('Unregistered') to destination 0 ('TV').
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_ERROR``
- 0x10
- Some error occurred. This is used for any errors that do not fit
- the previous two, either because the hardware could not tell which
- error occurred, or because the hardware tested for other
- conditions besides those two.
+ ``CEC_TX_STATUS_ARB_LOST`` or ``CEC_TX_STATUS_LOW_DRIVE``, either because
+ the hardware could not tell which error occurred, or because the hardware
+ tested for other conditions besides those two.
* .. _`CEC-TX-STATUS-MAX-RETRIES`:
- ``CEC_TX_STATUS_MAX_RETRIES``