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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/cec/cec-func-poll.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/cec/cec-func-poll.rst index 2d87136e9a3f..980bbfc0bcce 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/cec/cec-func-poll.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/cec/cec-func-poll.rst @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ .. SPDX-License-Identifier: GFDL-1.1-no-invariants-or-later +.. c:namespace:: CEC .. _cec-func-poll: @@ -11,7 +12,6 @@ Name cec-poll - Wait for some event on a file descriptor - Synopsis ======== @@ -19,9 +19,7 @@ Synopsis #include <sys/poll.h> - .. c:function:: int poll( struct pollfd *ufds, unsigned int nfds, int timeout ) - :name: cec-poll Arguments ========= @@ -35,14 +33,13 @@ Arguments ``timeout`` Timeout to wait for events - Description =========== -With the :c:func:`poll() <cec-poll>` function applications can wait for CEC +With the :c:func:`poll()` function applications can wait for CEC events. -On success :c:func:`poll() <cec-poll>` returns the number of file descriptors +On success :c:func:`poll()` returns the number of file descriptors that have been selected (that is, file descriptors for which the ``revents`` field of the respective struct :c:type:`pollfd` is non-zero). CEC devices set the ``POLLIN`` and ``POLLRDNORM`` flags in @@ -53,13 +50,12 @@ then the ``POLLPRI`` flag is set. When the function times out it returns a value of zero, on failure it returns -1 and the ``errno`` variable is set appropriately. -For more details see the :c:func:`poll() <cec-poll>` manual page. - +For more details see the :c:func:`poll()` manual page. Return Value ============ -On success, :c:func:`poll() <cec-poll>` returns the number structures which have +On success, :c:func:`poll()` returns the number structures which have non-zero ``revents`` fields, or zero if the call timed out. On error -1 is returned, and the ``errno`` variable is set appropriately: |