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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org, hverkuil@xs4all.nl,
	tfiga@chromium.org, bingbu.cao@intel.com,
	jian.xu.zheng@intel.com, rajmohan.mani@intel.com,
	tian.shu.qiu@intel.com, ricardo.ribalda@gmail.com,
	grundler@chromium.org, ping-chung.chen@intel.com,
	andy.yeh@intel.com, jim.lai@intel.com, helmut.grohne@intenta.de,
	laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com, snawrocki@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] v4l: controls: Add support for exponential bases, prefixes and units
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2018 08:14:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181014061437.GA2976@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180925101434.20327-3-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

Hi!

> Add support for exponential bases, prefixes as well as units for V4L2
> controls. This makes it possible to convey information on the relation
> between the control value and the hardware feature being controlled.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

Sounds good.

> +/* V4L2 control exponential bases */
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_BASE_UNDEFINED	0
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_BASE_LINEAR		1
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_BASE_2		2
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_BASE_10		10

Do we also want to support logarithmic and 1/x? 

For example focus is usually in diopters and thats 1/meter...

> +/* V4L2 control units */
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_UNDEFINED	0
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_NONE		1
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_SECOND		2
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_AMPERE		3
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_LINE		4
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_PIXEL		5
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_PIXELS_PER_SEC	6
> +#define V4L2_CTRL_UNIT_HZ		7

And Hz is 1/second.

Should we also have some support for ISO-sensitivity and f/ aperture numbers?


Thanks,
								Pavel

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-10-14 13:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-25 10:14 [PATCH 0/5] Add units to controls Sakari Ailus
2018-09-25 10:14 ` [PATCH 1/5] videodev2.h: Use 8 hexadecimals (32 bits) for control flags Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 13:16   ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-28 13:48   ` Hans Verkuil
2018-09-25 10:14 ` [PATCH 2/5] v4l: controls: Add support for exponential bases, prefixes and units Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 14:00   ` Hans Verkuil
2018-10-01  9:27     ` Helmut Grohne
2018-10-01  9:48       ` Hans Verkuil
2018-11-14  9:09     ` Tomasz Figa
2018-10-14  6:14   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2018-09-25 10:14 ` [PATCH 3/5] Documentation: media: Document control exponential bases, units, prefixes Sakari Ailus
2018-09-25 10:39   ` Helmut Grohne
2018-09-25 10:51     ` Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 14:20   ` Hans Verkuil
2018-09-25 10:14 ` [PATCH 4/5] v4l: controls: QUERY_EXT_CTRL support for base, prefix and unit Sakari Ailus
2018-09-26 22:40   ` kbuild test robot
2018-09-28 14:23   ` Hans Verkuil
2018-09-25 10:14 ` [PATCH 5/5] smiapp: Set control units Sakari Ailus
2018-09-28 14:28   ` Hans Verkuil
2018-09-25 11:48 ` [PATCH 0/5] Add units to controls Helmut Grohne
2018-09-25 12:30   ` Sakari Ailus
2018-09-26 10:24     ` Helmut Grohne
2018-09-28 13:25     ` Laurent Pinchart
2018-09-28 14:36       ` Hans Verkuil
2018-10-03  9:15     ` Tomasz Figa

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