[media] v4l2-controls.txt: update auto cluster documentation
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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@ -495,18 +495,20 @@ Handling autogain/gain-type Controls with Auto Clusters
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A common type of control cluster is one that handles 'auto-foo/foo'-type
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controls. Typical examples are autogain/gain, autoexposure/exposure,
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autowhitebalance/red balance/blue balance. In all cases you have one controls
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autowhitebalance/red balance/blue balance. In all cases you have one control
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that determines whether another control is handled automatically by the hardware,
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or whether it is under manual control from the user.
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If the cluster is in automatic mode, then the manual controls should be
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marked inactive. When the volatile controls are read the g_volatile_ctrl
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operation should return the value that the hardware's automatic mode set up
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automatically.
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marked inactive and volatile. When the volatile controls are read the
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g_volatile_ctrl operation should return the value that the hardware's automatic
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mode set up automatically.
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If the cluster is put in manual mode, then the manual controls should become
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active again and V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_VOLATILE should be ignored (so g_volatile_ctrl
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is no longer called while in manual mode).
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active again and the volatile flag is cleared (so g_volatile_ctrl is no longer
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called while in manual mode). In addition just before switching to manual mode
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the current values as determined by the auto mode are copied as the new manual
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values.
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Finally the V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_UPDATE should be set for the auto control since
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changing that control affects the control flags of the manual controls.
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@ -520,6 +522,10 @@ void v4l2_ctrl_auto_cluster(unsigned ncontrols, struct v4l2_ctrl **controls,
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The first two arguments are identical to v4l2_ctrl_cluster. The third argument
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tells the framework which value switches the cluster into manual mode. The
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last argument will optionally set V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_VOLATILE for the non-auto controls.
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If it is false, then the manual controls are never volatile. You would typically
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use that if the hardware does not give you the option to read back to values as
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determined by the auto mode (e.g. if autogain is on, the hardware doesn't allow
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you to obtain the current gain value).
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The first control of the cluster is assumed to be the 'auto' control.
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@ -680,16 +686,6 @@ if there are no controls at all.
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count if nothing was done yet. If it is less than count then only the controls
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up to error_idx-1 were successfully applied.
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3) When attempting to read a button control the framework will return -EACCES
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instead of -EINVAL as stated in the spec. It seems to make more sense since
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button controls are write-only controls.
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4) Attempting to write to a read-only control will return -EACCES instead of
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-EINVAL as the spec says.
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5) The spec does not mention what should happen when you try to set/get a
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control class controls. The framework will return -EACCES.
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Proposals for Extensions
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@ -702,9 +698,3 @@ decimal. Useful for e.g. video_mute_yuv.
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2) It is possible to mark in the controls array which controls have been
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successfully written and which failed by for example adding a bit to the
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control ID. Not sure if it is worth the effort, though.
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3) Trying to set volatile inactive controls should result in -EACCESS.
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4) Add a new flag to mark volatile controls. Any application that wants
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to store the state of the controls can then skip volatile inactive controls.
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Currently it is not possible to detect such controls.
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