Re: [PATCH 01/24] v4l: Add metadata buffer type and format

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On 06/24/2016 05:57 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> On 06/20/2016 09:10 PM, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>> The metadata buffer type is used to transfer metadata between userspace
>> and kernelspace through a V4L2 buffers queue. It comes with a new
>> metadata capture capability and format description.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I am willing to Ack this, provided Sakari and Guennadi Ack this as well. They know
> more about metadata handling in various types of hardware than I do, so I feel
> their Acks are important here.

Actually, I would like to see more about how applications can associate frames with
metadata (if such a correspondence exists).

There was an irc discussion about that here:

https://linuxtv.org/irc/irclogger_log/v4l?date=2016-06-24,Fri

Guennadi's uvc patches may be useful as a testbed for figuring this out.

Regards,

	Hans
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