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From: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
To: hverkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
	Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Aviv Greenberg <avivgr@gmail.com>,
	linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: per-frame camera metadata (again)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 19:33:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1635284.ayChAxBmkc@avalon> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86a64428cff3a4056742bb169de13e70@xs4all.nl>

Hi Hans,

On Thursday 24 December 2015 13:54:11 hverkuil wrote:
> On 2015-12-24 12:29, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> >> Control classes are not deprecated, only the use of the control_class
> >> field in struct v4l2_ext_controls to limit the controls in the list to
> >> a single control class is deprecated. That old limitation was from pre-
> >> control-framework times to simplify driver design. With the creation
> >> of the control framework that limitation is no longer needed.
> > 
> > Doesn't that effectively deprecated control classes ? We can certainly
> > group controls in categories for documentation purposes, but the control
> > class as an API concept is quite useless nowadays.
> 
> No it's not. It is meant to be used by GUIs to group controls into tab
> pages or something similar. See qv4l2 or v4l2-ctl. It's very useful.

I guess I'll just keep disagreeing with you regarding whether the kernel 
should provide GUI hints then (cf. V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_SLIDER) :-)

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


      reply	other threads:[~2015-12-24 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-16  9:37 per-frame camera metadata (again) Guennadi Liakhovetski
2015-12-16 10:02 ` Hans Verkuil
2015-12-16 11:25   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2015-12-21  3:41     ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-12-22 11:16       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2015-12-22 13:30         ` karthik poduval
2015-12-24 10:54           ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-12-23 17:40         ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-12-24 10:42           ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2015-12-26 23:47             ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-01-01 15:43               ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2016-01-05 11:31                 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2016-01-25 11:14                   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2016-01-25 19:53                     ` Laurent Pinchart
2016-01-26 12:49                       ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2016-01-29 10:08                         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2015-12-19  0:06   ` Sakari Ailus
2015-12-23  9:47     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2015-12-24 10:46       ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-12-24 11:17         ` hverkuil
2015-12-24 11:29           ` Laurent Pinchart
2015-12-24 12:54             ` hverkuil
2015-12-24 17:33               ` Laurent Pinchart [this message]

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