Re: [PATCH v5 09/35] v4l: Add subdev selections documentation

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Hi Sakari,

On 03/06/2012 05:32 PM, Sakari Ailus wrote:
> Add documentation for V4L2 subdev selection API. This changes also
> experimental V4L2 subdev API so that scaling now works through selection API
> only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/Makefile               |    4 +-
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/compat.xml         |    9 +
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/dev-subdev.xml     |  202 +++++++++++++++--
>  Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/v4l2.xml           |   17 ++-
>  .../media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-selection.xml        |  228 ++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 433 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)
>  cre
ate mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-selection.xml

[snip]

> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-selection.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-selection.xml
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..9164b85
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-subdev-g-selection.xml
> @@ -0,0 +1,228 @@
> +<refentry id="vidioc-subdev-g-selection">
> +  <refmeta>
> +    <refentrytitle>ioctl VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_SELECTION, VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_SELECTION</refentrytitle>
> +    &manvol;
> +  </refmeta>
> +
> +  <refnamediv>
> +    <refname>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_SELECTION</refname>
> +    <refname>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_SELECTION</refname>
> +    <refpurpose>Get or set selection rectangles on a subdev pad</refpurpose>
> +  </refnamediv>
> +
> +  <refsynopsisdiv>
> +    <funcsynopsis>
> +      <funcprototype>
> +	<funcdef>int <function>ioctl</function></funcdef>
> +	<paramdef>int <parameter>fd</parameter></paramdef>
> +	<paramdef>int <parameter>request</parameter></paramdef>
> +	<paramdef>struct v4l2_subdev_selection *<parameter>argp</parameter></paramdef>
> +      </funcprototype>
> +    </funcsynopsis>
> +  </refsynopsisdiv>
> +
> +  <refsect1>
> +    <title>Arguments</title>
> +
> +    <variablelist>
> +      <varlistentry>
> +	<term><parameter>fd</parameter></term>
> +	<listitem>
> +	  <para>&fd;</para>
> +	</listitem>
> +      </varlistentry>
> +      <varlistentry>
> +	<term><parameter>request</parameter></term>
> +	<listitem>
> +	  <para>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_SELECTION, VIDIOC_SUBDEV_S_SELECTION</para>
> +	</listitem>
> +      </varlistentry>
> +      <varlistentry>
> +	<term><parameter>argp</parameter></term>
> +	<listitem>
> +	  <para></para>
> +	</listitem>
> +      </varlistentry>
> +    </variablelist>
> +  </refsect1>
> +
> +  <refsect1>
> +    <title>Description</title>
> +
> +    <note>
> +      <title>Experimental</title>
> +      <para>This is an <link linkend="experimental">experimental</link>
> +      interface and may change in the future.</para>
> +    </note>
> +
> +    <para>The selections are used to configure various image
> +    processing functionality performed by the subdevs which affect the
> +    image size. This currently includes cropping, scaling and
> +    composition.</para>
> +
> +    <para>The selection API replaces <link
> +    linkend="vidioc-subdev-g-crop">the old subdev crop API</link>. All
> +    the function of the crop API, and more, are supported by the
> +    selections API.</para>
> +
> +    <para>See <xref linkend="subdev"></xref> for
> +    more information on how each selection target affects the image
> +    processing pipeline inside the subdevice.</para>
> +
> +    <section>
> +      <title>Types of selection targets</title>
> +
> +      <para>There are two types of selection targets: active and bounds.
> +      The ACTIVE targets are the targets which configure the hardware.
> +      The BOUNDS target will return a rectangle that contain all
> +      possible ACTIVE rectangles.</para>
> +    </section>
> +
> +    <section>
> +      <title>Discovering supported features</title>
> +
> +      <para>To discover which targets are supported, the user can
> +      perform <constant>VIDIOC_SUBDEV_G_SELECTION</constant> on them.
> +      Any unsupported target will return
> +      <constant>EINVAL</constant>.</para>
> +    </section>
> +
> +    <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-subdev-selection-targets">
> +      <title>V4L2 subdev selection targets</title>
> +      <tgroup cols="3">
> +        &cs-def;
> +	<tbody valign="top">
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_CROP_ACTIVE</constant></entry>
> +	    <entry>0x0000</entry>
> +	    <entry>Active crop. Defines the cropping
> +	    performed by the processing step.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_CROP_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
> +	    <entry>0x0002</entry>
> +	    <entry>Bounds of the crop rectangle.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_ACTIVE</constant></entry>
> +	    <entry>0x0100</entry>
> +	    <entry>Active compose rectangle. Used to configure scaling
> +	    on sink pads and composition on source pads.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_TGT_COMPOSE_BOUNDS</constant></entry>
> +	    <entry>0x0102</entry>
> +	    <entry>Bounds of the compose rectangle.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	</tbody>
> +      </tgroup>
> +    </table>
> +
> +    <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-subdev-selection-flags">
> +      <title>V4L2 subdev selection flags</title>
> +      <tgroup cols="3">
> +        &cs-def;
> +	<tbody valign="top">
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_FLAG_SIZE_GE</constant></entry>
> +	    <entry>(1 &lt;&lt; 0)</entry> <entry>Suggest the driver it
> +	    should choose greater or equal rectangle (in size) than
> +	    was requested. Albeit the driver may choose a lesser size,
> +	    it will only do so due to hardware limitations. Without
> +	    this flag (and
> +	    <constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_FLAG_SIZE_LE</constant>) the
> +	    behaviour is to choose the closest possible
> +	    rectangle.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_FLAG_SIZE_LE</constant></entry>
> +	    <entry>(1 &lt;&lt; 1)</entry> <entry>Suggest the driver it
> +	    should choose lesser or equal rectangle (in size) than was
> +	    requested. Albeit the driver may choose a greater size, it
> +	    will only do so due to hardware limitations.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry><constant>V4L2_SUBDEV_SEL_FLAG_KEEP_CONFIG</constant></entry>
> +	    <entry>(1 &lt;&lt; 2)</entry>
> +	    <entry>The configuration should not be propagated to any
> +	    further processing steps. If this flag is not given, the
> +	    configuration is propagated inside the subdevice to all
> +	    further processing steps.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	</tbody>
> +      </tgroup>
> +    </table>
> +
> +    <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="v4l2-subdev-selection">
> +      <title>struct <structname>v4l2_subdev_selection</structname></title>
> +      <tgroup cols="3">
> +        &cs-str;
> +	<tbody valign="top">
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry>__u32</entry>
> +	    <entry><structfield>which</structfield></entry>
> +	    <entry>Active or try selection, from
> +	    &v4l2-subdev-format-whence;.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry>__u32</entry>
> +	    <entry><structfield>pad</structfield></entry>
> +	    <entry>Pad number as reported by the media framework.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry>__u32</entry>
> +	    <entry><structfield>target</structfield></entry>
> +	    <entry>Target selection rectangle. See
> +	    <xref linkend="v4l2-subdev-selection-targets">.</xref>.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry>__u32</entry>
> +	    <entry><structfield>flags</structfield></entry>
> +	    <entry>Flags. See
> +	    <xref linkend="v4l2-subdev-selection-flags">.</xref></entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry>&v4l2-rect;</entry>
> +	    <entry><structfield>rect</structfield></entry>
> +	    <entry>Crop rectangle boundaries, in pixels.</entry>

Shouldn't it be "Selection rectangle, in pixels." ?

> +	  </row>
> +	  <row>
> +	    <entry>__u32</entry>
> +	    <entry><structfield>reserved</structfield>[8]</entry>
> +	    <entry>Reserved for future extensions. Applications and drivers must
> +	    set the array to zero.</entry>
> +	  </row>
> +	</tbody>
> +      </tgroup>
> +    </table>
> +
> +  </refsect1>

--

Regards,
Sylwester

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Sylwester Nawrocki
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Samsung Poland R&D Center
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