Hi, here is an experiment about listing controls values with v4l2-ctl in a way that makes it more easy to reload them, I would use something like that for https://git.ao2.it/v4l2-persistent-settings.git/ Patches 1 and 2 are just warm-up patches to get me familiar again with the v4l2-ctrl codebase, patch 2 is a small preparatory cleanup, and patches 4 and 5 showcase the idea. Thanks, Antonio Antonio Ospite (5): v4l2-ctl: list controls with menus when OptAll is specified v4l2-ctl: list once when both OptListCtrls and OptListCtrlsMenus are there v4l2-ctl: use a dedicated function to print the control class name v4l2-ctl: abstract the mechanism used to print the list of controls v4l2-ctl: add an option to list controls in a machine-readable format utils/v4l2-ctl/v4l2-ctl-common.cpp | 95 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----- utils/v4l2-ctl/v4l2-ctl.1.in | 4 ++ utils/v4l2-ctl/v4l2-ctl.cpp | 3 +- utils/v4l2-ctl/v4l2-ctl.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 88 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) -- Antonio Ospite https://ao2.it https://twitter.com/ao2it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?