From: Sakari Ailus Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:07:17 +0000 (+0300) Subject: media: Documentation: Reword split of sensor driver to two classes X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~133^2~298 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a7067c7302f67f62e5bf41f948bde06d85c47625;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git media: Documentation: Reword split of sensor driver to two classes 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 Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi Reviewed-by: Tomi Valkeinen Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil --- diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/media/drivers/camera-sensor.rst index 3f1e62bc90b83..75fd9166383fd 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~