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

Sakari Ailus
2025-02-03T08:59:19Z

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>
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.../userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst | 10 ++++++----
1 file 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 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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