I am sending this again because apparently I sent it originally from my
personal email by mistake.
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Hi Hans!
I have been working on testing this lately as you know.
From the example you've added to vivid, i.e.:
+static const struct v4l2_ctrl_config vivid_ctrl_u32_dyn_array = {
+ .ops = &vivid_user_gen_ctrl_ops,
+ .id = VIVID_CID_U32_DYN_ARRAY,
+ .name = "U32 Dynamic Array",
+ .type = V4L2_CTRL_TYPE_U32,
+ .flags = V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY,
+ .def = 50,
+ .min = 10,
+ .max = 90,
+ .step = 1,
+ .dims = { 100 },
+};
+
+ v4l2_ctrl_new_custom(hdl_user_gen, &vivid_ctrl_u32_dyn_array, NULL);
I was under the impression that it'd be enough to pass the id and
V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY in the config before calling
v4l2_ctrl_new_custom. Apparently that's not the case though, because
v4l2_ctrl_fill will then set its own flags if I understood correctly, i.e.:
if (name == NULL)
v4l2_ctrl_fill(cfg->id, &name, &type, &min, &max, &step,
&def,&flags)
<snip>
*name = v4l2_ctrl_get_name(id);
*flags = 0
<snip>
To be honest, I didn't quite understand whether you wanted individual
drivers to signal they want to treat a given control as a dynamic array
or whether I should add that flag in the switch statement in
v4l2_ctrl_fill, thereby enabling this feature by default for all drivers
that use that control if I understood correctly.
If the former, I was expecting to communicate it to userspace via a menu
control, e.g. for h264 and cedrus:
enum v4l2_stateless_h264_decode_mode {
V4L2_STATELESS_H264_DECODE_MODE_SLICE_BASED, /* i.e. a single
slice per request */
V4L2_STATELESS_H264_DECODE_MODE_FRAME_BASED,
+ V4L2_STATELESS_H264_DECODE_MODE_SLICE_ARRAY_BASED, /* i.e. an array
of slices per request */
};
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ static const struct cedrus_control cedrus_controls[] = {
{
.cfg = {
.id = V4L2_CID_STATELESS_H264_SLICE_PARAMS,
+ .flags = V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_DYNAMIC_ARRAY,
},
.codec = CEDRUS_CODEC_H264,
},
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@ static const struct cedrus_control cedrus_controls[] = {
{
.cfg = {
.id = V4L2_CID_STATELESS_H264_DECODE_MODE,
- .max = V4L2_STATELESS_H264_DECODE_MODE_SLICE_BASED,
+ .max = V4L2_STATELESS_H264_DECODE_MODE_SLICE_ARRAY_BASED,
.def = V4L2_STATELESS_H264_DECODE_MODE_SLICE_BASED,
},
.codec = CEDRUS_CODEC_H264,
-- Daniel
