Re: camss: camera controls missing on vfe interfaces

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Todor et all,

Any hint on how to tackle this?

I can contribute patches, but I'd like to understand what the idea is.


Thanks,
Daniel


On Thursday, October 26, 2017 06:11 PM, Daniel Mack wrote:
> Hi Todor,
> 
> When using the camss driver trough one of its /dev/videoX device nodes,
> applications are currently unable to see the video controls the camera
> sensor exposes.
> 
> Same goes for other ioctls such as VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT, so the only valid
> resolution setting for applications to use is the one that was
> previously set through the media controller layer. Applications usually
> query the available formats and then pick one using the standard V4L2
> APIs, and many can't easily be forced to use a specific one.
> 
> If I'm getting this right, could you explain what's the rationale here?
> Is that simply a missing feature or was that approach chosen on purpose?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 




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