On 01/22/19 10:47, Sakari Ailus wrote: > Hi Hans, > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 09:19:42AM +0100, Hans Verkuil wrote: >> Hi Sakari, >> >> Can you check if this patch is needed at all? The latest v4l2-ctl should work >> for both meta capture and output, i.e. all meta options (v4l2-ctl --help-meta) >> just look up the buffer type of the video device and use that to list/set/get/try >> the formats. > > That'd be one option. I guess we don't have that elsewhere, do we? In > practice it could work, but it'd prevent having the two queue types in the > same video node. It seems an improbable combination though. > > I'd prefer keeping the options separate to maintain v4l2-ctl's ability to > access all aspects of the API, even if unlikely. Well, you can add -out options for consistency, but the code remains the same :-) > But the help option should probably be unified, like it is for SDR. > Definitely. Regards, Hans
