Re: [PATCH] OMAP2 camera and TCM825x sensor drivers

[Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@nokia.com>]

ext Syed Mohammed, Khasim wrote:
>>> do you have any kind of design doc or ppt that
>>> gives a brief overview of what the code is and the interface
> considered
> 
> Sakari, taking this back :) Sorry was kind of used to these for a while.

Good, as I didn't have any. ;)

>>> Do you mean "rotation" of the preview window ? See, preview in camera
>>> driver is just a add-on functionality _but_ not must. I would not use
>>> this auto preview functionality, instead captured stream will go to
>>> /dev/fb1 and then shown on the LCD/TV out and rotated based on the
>>> N800 sensor or app commands.
> 
> Trilok, this may be your use case but not true for all OMAP users :)
> Few take preview seriously; I have seen demands for a preview with
> rotation/mirroring/cropping/scaling :) Again it's as per demands.
> Why to send a data to app that is not getting stored? 

Is there a real life use case where even preview is really useful? Or 
necessary? (I'm asking because I can't figure anything immediately. 
Except maybe something like xawtv, but for a camera. :))

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Sakari Ailus
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