Re: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: Describe V4L2_CID_PIXEL_SIZE

[Ricardo Ribalda Delgado]

Completely agree. Maybe we should call the control unit cell size?, in
case in the future we need a control for the light sensitive area.

Best regards

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 3:42 PM Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2019-08-19 at 14:17 +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> > New control to pass to userspace the width/height of a pixel. Which is
> > needed for 3D calibration and lens selection.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-camera.rst | 6 ++++++
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-camera.rst b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-camera.rst
> > index 51c1d5c9eb00..670c57a6f622 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-camera.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/media/uapi/v4l/ext-ctrls-camera.rst
> > @@ -510,6 +510,12 @@ enum v4l2_scene_mode -
> >      value down. A value of zero stops the motion if one is in progress
> >      and has no effect otherwise.
> >
> > +``V4L2_CID_PIXEL_SIZE (struct)``
> > +    This control returns the pixel size in nanometres. The struct provides
> > +    the width and the height in separated fields to take into consideration
> > +    asymmetric pixels and/or hardware binning.
> > +    This control is required for automatic calibration of the sensor.
> > +
> >  .. [#f1]
> >     This control may be changed to a menu control in the future, if more
> >     options are required.
>
> I suppose this is a common term, but should it be mentioned that pixel
> size is the same as unit cell size, and not necessarily the size of the
> light sensitive area? Just in case the effective fill-factor is < 100%.
>
> regards
> Philipp