Re: [PATCHv2 3/3] media: uvcvideo: add UVC 1.5 ROI control

[Ricardo Ribalda]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:19 PM Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Sergey
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 5:47 AM Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky.work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On (21/03/17 08:58), Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> > [..]
> > > >
> > > > GET_CUR?
> > > yep
> > >
> > > >
> > > > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.13/media/uapi/v4l/vidioc-g-selection.html?highlight=vidioc_s_selection
> > > > > On success the struct v4l2_rect r field contains the adjusted
> > > > > rectangle.
> > > >
> > > > What is the adjusted rectangle here? Does this mean that firmware can
> > > > successfully apply SET_CUR and return 0, but in reality it was not happy
> > > > with the rectangle dimensions so it modified it behind the scenes?
> > >
> > > I can imagine that some hw might have spooky requirements for the roi
> > > rectangle (multiple of 4, not crossing the bayer filter, odd/even
> > > line...) so they might be able to go the closest valid config.
> >
> > Hmm. Honestly, I'm very unsure about it. ROI::SET_CUR can be a very
> > hot path, depending on what user-space considers to be of interest
> > and how frequently that object of interest changes its position/shape/etc.
> > Doing GET_CUR after every SET_CUR doubles the number of firmware calls
> > we issue, that's for sure; is it worth it - that's something that I'm
> > not sure of.
> >
> > May I please ask for more opinions on this?
>
> Could you try setting the roi in a loop in your device and verify that
> it accepts all the values with no modification. If so we can implement
> the set/get as a quirk for other devices.

as a loop I mean testing all the values not the same value again-and-again
;)


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> >         -ss
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> Ricardo Ribalda



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