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authorSakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi>2011-10-04 08:20:05 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>2012-05-14 08:35:24 -0300
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[media] v4l: Image source control class
Add image source control class. This control class is intended to contain low level controls which deal with control of the image capture process --- the A/D converter in image sensors, for example. Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml86
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml6
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
index 5e12257dfcef..43cd4958c9e8 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/controls.xml
@@ -3599,4 +3599,90 @@ interface and may change in the future.</para>
to <xref linkend="itu-t81"/>, <xref linkend="jfif"/>,
<xref linkend="w3c-jpeg-jfif"/>.</para>
</section>
+
+ <section id="image-source-controls">
+ <title>Image Source Control Reference</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 Image Source control class is intended for low-level
+ control of image source devices such as image sensors. The
+ devices feature an analogue to digital converter and a bus
+ transmitter to transmit the image data out of the device.
+ </para>
+
+ <table pgwide="1" frame="none" id="image-source-control-id">
+ <title>Image Source Control IDs</title>
+
+ <tgroup cols="4">
+ <colspec colname="c1" colwidth="1*" />
+ <colspec colname="c2" colwidth="6*" />
+ <colspec colname="c3" colwidth="2*" />
+ <colspec colname="c4" colwidth="6*" />
+ <spanspec namest="c1" nameend="c2" spanname="id" />
+ <spanspec namest="c2" nameend="c4" spanname="descr" />
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="id" align="left">ID</entry>
+ <entry align="left">Type</entry>
+ </row><row rowsep="1"><entry spanname="descr" align="left">Description</entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody valign="top">
+ <row><entry></entry></row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="id"><constant>V4L2_CID_IMAGE_SOURCE_CLASS</constant></entry>
+ <entry>class</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="descr">The IMAGE_SOURCE class descriptor.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="id"><constant>V4L2_CID_VBLANK</constant></entry>
+ <entry>integer</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="descr">Vertical blanking. The idle period
+ after every frame during which no image data is produced.
+ The unit of vertical blanking is a line. Every line has
+ length of the image width plus horizontal blanking at the
+ pixel rate defined by
+ <constant>V4L2_CID_PIXEL_RATE</constant> control in the
+ same sub-device.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="id"><constant>V4L2_CID_HBLANK</constant></entry>
+ <entry>integer</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="descr">Horizontal blanking. The idle
+ period after every line of image data during which no
+ image data is produced. The unit of horizontal blanking is
+ pixels.</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="id"><constant>V4L2_CID_ANALOGUE_GAIN</constant></entry>
+ <entry>integer</entry>
+ </row>
+ <row>
+ <entry spanname="descr">Analogue gain is gain affecting
+ all colour components in the pixel matrix. The gain
+ operation is performed in the analogue domain before A/D
+ conversion.
+ </entry>
+ </row>
+ <row><entry></entry></row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </table>
+
+ </section>
+
</section>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml
index 27e20bcbdf42..f2d2ec3f0e31 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-ext-ctrls.xml
@@ -272,6 +272,12 @@ These controls are described in <xref
These controls are described in <xref
linkend="jpeg-controls" />.</entry>
</row>
+ <row>
+ <entry><constant>V4L2_CTRL_CLASS_IMAGE_SOURCE</constant></entry>
+ <entry>0x9e0000</entry> <entry>The class containing image
+ source controls. These controls are described in <xref
+ linkend="image-source-controls" />.</entry>
+ </row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</table>