On 11/16/2014 05:40 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> Thank you for the review.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 09:46:54AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> On 11/09/2014 12:04 AM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
>>> The V4L2_SEL_TGT_NATIVE_SIZE target is used to denote e.g. the size of a
>>> sensor's pixel array.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ai...@iki.fi>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/selections-common.xml |    8 ++++++++
>>>  include/uapi/linux/v4l2-common.h                      |    2 ++
>>>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/selections-common.xml 
>>> b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/selections-common.xml
>>> index 7502f78..5fc833a 100644
>>> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/selections-common.xml
>>> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/selections-common.xml
>>> @@ -63,6 +63,14 @@
>>>         <entry>Yes</entry>
>>>       </row>
>>>       <row>
>>> +       <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_NATIVE_SIZE</constant></entry>
>>> +       <entry>0x0003</entry>
>>> +       <entry>The native size of the device, e.g. a sensor's
>>> +       pixel array.</entry>
>>
>> You might want to state that top and left are always 0.
> 
> Fixed. I also added a patch to fix this in the smiapp driver --- the values
> were uninitialised. :-P
> 
>>> +       <entry>Yes</entry>
>>> +       <entry>Yes</entry>
>>> +     </row>
>>> +     <row>
>>>         <entry><constant>V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE</constant></entry>
>>>         <entry>0x0100</entry>
>>>         <entry>Compose rectangle. Used to configure scaling
>>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/v4l2-common.h 
>>> b/include/uapi/linux/v4l2-common.h
>>> index 2f6f8ca..1527398 100644
>>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/v4l2-common.h
>>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/v4l2-common.h
>>> @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
>>>  #define V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_DEFAULT  0x0001
>>>  /* Cropping bounds */
>>>  #define V4L2_SEL_TGT_CROP_BOUNDS   0x0002
>>> +/* Native frame size */
>>> +#define V4L2_SEL_TGT_NATIVE_SIZE   0x0003
>>>  /* Current composing area */
>>>  #define V4L2_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE               0x0100
>>>  /* Default composing area */
>>>
>>
>> I like this. This would also make it possible to set the 'canvas' size of an
>> mem2mem device. Currently calling S_FMT for a mem2mem device cannot setup any
>> scaler since there is no native size. Instead S_FMT effectively *sets* the 
>> native
>> size. The same is true for webcams with a scaler, which is why you added 
>> this in
>> the first place. Obviously for sensors this target is read-only, but for a 
>> mem2mem
>> device it can be writable as well.
>>
>> However, to make full use of this you also need to add input and output
>> capabilities if the native size can be set:
>>
>>      V4L2_IN_CAP_NATIVE_SIZE
>>      V4L2_OUT_CAP_NATIVE_SIZE
> 
> Do you think this would require a capability flag, rather than just
> returning an error if the target is unsettable, as we otherwise already do
> if a selection target isn't supported? For the compound controls it's even
> easier, you just don't have a read-only flag set in the equivalent control.

No, I really want a capability flag here. Otherwise applications would have to
call ENUMINPUT *and* call G_SELECTION followed by S_SELECTION just to test if
it can be set. Besides, this is also a per-input capability, so you want to get
hold of the capabilities without having to do a S_INPUT first. I.e. you don't
want to have to do this:

        // pseudo code just to give the idea
        for (i = 0; i < max_input; i++) {
                struct v4l2_selection sel = { NATIVE_SIZE };

                ioctl(S_INPUT, i);
                ioctl(G_SELECTION, &sel);
                if (ioctl(S_SELECTION, &sel))
                        // does not support NATIVE_SIZE
        }

> 
>> (see ENUMINPUT/ENUMOUTPUT)
>>
>> This would nicely fill in a hole in the V4L2 Spec.
> 

Regards,

        Hans
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