On Fri, 18 May 2012 09:08:29 +0200 Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2012 23:42:43 +0200 > Antonio Ospite <ospite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The second patch removes the dependency between auto gain and auto white > > balance, I'd like to hear Jean-Francois on this, the webcam (the ov772x > > sensor) is able to set the two parameters independently and the user can > > see the difference of either, is there a reason why we were preventing > > the user from doing so before? > > Hi Antonio, > > I added this dependency by the git commit 2d19a2c1186d86e3 > on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 (the original patch was done under mercurial). > > Looking in my archives, I retrieved this mail I have sent to you, > Max Thrun, kaswy, baptiste_lemarie, Martin Drake and Jim Paris: [...] > > > > > * * AWB doesn't have any effect?* > > > > > > > > > I notice its effect if i start uvcview, enable auto gain, then > > > > enable awb. > > > > > > > > > > If there is a strict dependency between these two settings, > > > shouldn't the driver enforce it? Here I made a wrong assumption at the time, the bug must have been somewhere else, forgive the "younger me" in that email :) > Otherwise, you are right, the ov7670 and ov7729 datasheets do not talk > about a possible AGC and AWB dependency... OK, thanks. Regards, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
