Re: [PATCH][RFC] Add mt9p031 sensor support.

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On Fri, 27 May 2011, javier Martin wrote:

> On 25 May 2011 11:43, Laurent Pinchart
> <laurent.pinchart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Javier,
> >
> > On Wednesday 25 May 2011 11:41:42 javier Martin wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> thank you for the review, I agree with you on all the suggested
> >> changes except on this one:
> >>
> >> On 25 May 2011 10:05, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> > On Tuesday 24 May 2011 16:30:43 Javier Martin wrote:
> >> >> This RFC includes a power management implementation that causes
> >> >> the sensor to show images with horizontal artifacts (usually
> >> >> monochrome lines that appear on the image randomly).
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Javier Martin <javier.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > [snip]
> >> >
> >> >> diff --git a/drivers/media/video/mt9p031.c
> >> >> b/drivers/media/video/mt9p031.c new file mode 100644
> >> >> index 0000000..04d8812
> >> >> --- /dev/null
> >> >> +++ b/drivers/media/video/mt9p031.c
> >> >
> >> > [snip]
> >> >
> >> >> +#define MT9P031_WINDOW_HEIGHT_MAX            1944
> >> >> +#define MT9P031_WINDOW_WIDTH_MAX             2592
> >> >> +#define MT9P031_WINDOW_HEIGHT_MIN            2
> >> >> +#define MT9P031_WINDOW_WIDTH_MIN             18
> >> >
> >> > Can you move those 4 constants right below MT9P031_WINDOW_HEIGHT and
> >> > MT9P031_WINDOW_WIDTH ? The max values are not correct, according to the
> >> > datasheet they should be 2005 and 2751.
> >>
> >> In figure 4, it says active image size is 2592 x 1944
> >> Why should I include active boundary and dark pixels?
> >
> > Users might want to get the dark pixels for black level compensation purpose.
> > As the chip allows for that, it should be supported. The default should of
> > course be the active area of 2592 x 1944 pixels.
> >
> 
> OK, that sounds reasonable. However, that would include black pixels
> that are located at the beginning of the array (0,0) to (16, 54),
> which means that users would have to specify a crop value of (15,54)
> to eliminate those initial black level pixels. Which seems quite
> unnatural to me.
> Another option could be setting (16,54) as default values and allowing
> to introduce negative cropping values. Is this possible?
> And finally, the most sensible idea IMHO could be not letting the user
> to see pixels from (0,0) to (15,54) (setting 15,54 as minimum and
> default )and, for black level compensation, ending pixels could be
> used (2608,1998) to (2751, 2003).

No, you set your crop bounds to (0,0)-... but your default rectangle to 
(15,54)-... and that's also what you set if noone issues an S_CROP.

Thanks
Guennadi

> What do you think?
> 
> 
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