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| author | Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> | 2024-10-10 12:07:17 +0300 |
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| committer | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org> | 2025-08-25 15:40:33 +0200 |
| commit | a7067c7302f67f62e5bf41f948bde06d85c47625 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c873384454028805a6a6d73491115c7950823ec /Documentation/userspace-api | |
| parent | c95c1ea8f50963abd85d0321b161e3dd14cdabb0 (diff) | |
| download | tip-a7067c7302f67f62e5bf41f948bde06d85c47625.tar.gz | |
media: Documentation: Reword split of sensor driver to two classes
The sensor drivers do not configure the output size of the sensors but the
entire internal pipeline. Reflect this in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil+cisco@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst index 3f1e62bc90b837..75fd9166383fdb 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst @@ -10,11 +10,13 @@ used to control the camera sensor drivers. You may also find :ref:`media_writing_camera_sensor_drivers` useful. -Frame size ----------- +Sensor internal pipeline configuration +-------------------------------------- -There are two distinct ways to configure the frame size produced by camera -sensors. +Camera sensors have an internal processing pipeline including cropping and +binning functionality. The sensor drivers belong to two distinct classes, freely +configurable and register list-based drivers, depending on how the driver +configures this functionality. Freely configurable camera sensor drivers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |