Re: [RFC v5 03/15] media: Documentation: Reword split of sensor driver to two classes

Lad, Prabhakar
2025-02-03T14:58:13Z

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM Sakari Ailus
<sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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>
> ---
> .../userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst | 10 ++++++----
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
Reviewed-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.mahadev-lad.rj@bp.renesas.com>

Cheers,
Prabhakar

> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst
> index 9a1e8aa9fc77..bc55c861fb69 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
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> --
> 2.39.5
>