[PATCH v4] media: i2c: ov13858: add horizontal and vertical flip controls

From: Sergey Lebedev

Date: Wed Sep 30 2026 - 03:33:31 EST


The Microsoft Surface Pro 11 for Business (Intel) mounts this sensor
upside down, as commit b238116ccd4b ("media: ipu-bridge: Add upside-down
quirk for Surface Pro 11") records, and the driver has no flip controls
to compensate.

Add V4L2_CID_HFLIP and V4L2_CID_VFLIP on bits 3 and 4 of register 0x3820.
The mirror bit is active low, as in Intel's out-of-tree ov13858 driver.
The Bayer order does not change with either flip, so the controls do not
set V4L2_CTRL_FLAG_MODIFY_LAYOUT. They are clustered, and grabbed while
streaming.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5-5
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lebedev <lsa.uz@xxxxx>
Tested-by: German Pablo Lindo <germanpapulindez@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v4:
- The comment on 0x3820 now sits on the horizontal flip bit, the only
one it is true of. (Sakari)
- Commit message rewritten shorter. (Sakari)
- Assisted-by added, per Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst.

Only a comment changed in the code, so German's Tested-by is kept.

v3: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260926080242.93628-1-lsa.uz@xxxxx/
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260921124444.79396-1-lsa.uz@xxxxx/
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260921082609.30830-1-lsa.uz@xxxxx/

drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c b/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c
index de2b79a9a0e..5a49fa0ec02 100644
--- a/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c
+++ b/drivers/media/i2c/ov13858.c
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@
#define OV13858_DGTL_GAIN_DEFAULT 1024 /* Default gain = 1 X */
#define OV13858_DGTL_GAIN_STEP 1 /* Each step = 1/1024 */

+/* Readout direction */
+#define OV13858_REG_FORMAT1 0x3820
+#define OV13858_FORMAT1_VFLIP BIT(4)
+/* Horizontal flip, active low: every mode table sets this bit */
+#define OV13858_FORMAT1_HFLIP_N BIT(3)
+
/* Test Pattern Control */
#define OV13858_REG_TEST_PATTERN 0x4503
#define OV13858_TEST_PATTERN_ENABLE BIT(7)
@@ -1042,6 +1048,8 @@ struct ov13858 {
struct v4l2_ctrl *vblank;
struct v4l2_ctrl *hblank;
struct v4l2_ctrl *exposure;
+ struct v4l2_ctrl *hflip;
+ struct v4l2_ctrl *vflip;

/* Current mode */
const struct ov13858_mode *cur_mode;
@@ -1208,6 +1216,31 @@ static int ov13858_enable_test_pattern(struct ov13858 *ov13858, u32 pattern)
OV13858_REG_VALUE_08BIT, val);
}

+static int ov13858_update_flips(struct ov13858 *ov13858)
+{
+ u32 val;
+ int ret;
+
+ ret = ov13858_read_reg(ov13858, OV13858_REG_FORMAT1,
+ OV13858_REG_VALUE_08BIT, &val);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ if (ov13858->vflip->val)
+ val |= OV13858_FORMAT1_VFLIP;
+ else
+ val &= ~OV13858_FORMAT1_VFLIP;
+
+ /* The mirror bit is active low, as it is on ov13b10. */
+ if (ov13858->hflip->val)
+ val &= ~OV13858_FORMAT1_HFLIP_N;
+ else
+ val |= OV13858_FORMAT1_HFLIP_N;
+
+ return ov13858_write_reg(ov13858, OV13858_REG_FORMAT1,
+ OV13858_REG_VALUE_08BIT, val);
+}
+
static int ov13858_set_ctrl(struct v4l2_ctrl *ctrl)
{
struct ov13858 *ov13858 = container_of(ctrl->handler,
@@ -1254,6 +1287,10 @@ static int ov13858_set_ctrl(struct v4l2_ctrl *ctrl)
ov13858->cur_mode->height
+ ctrl->val);
break;
+ case V4L2_CID_HFLIP:
+ case V4L2_CID_VFLIP:
+ ret = ov13858_update_flips(ov13858);
+ break;
case V4L2_CID_TEST_PATTERN:
ret = ov13858_enable_test_pattern(ov13858, ctrl->val);
break;
@@ -1481,6 +1518,13 @@ static int ov13858_set_stream(struct v4l2_subdev *sd, int enable)
pm_runtime_put(ov13858->dev);
}

+ /*
+ * Do not let the flips change while streaming. ov13858->mutex is the
+ * control handler's own lock and is held here, hence the __ form.
+ */
+ __v4l2_ctrl_grab(ov13858->hflip, enable);
+ __v4l2_ctrl_grab(ov13858->vflip, enable);
+
mutex_unlock(&ov13858->mutex);

return ret;
@@ -1619,6 +1663,12 @@ static int ov13858_init_controls(struct ov13858 *ov13858)
OV13858_DGTL_GAIN_MIN, OV13858_DGTL_GAIN_MAX,
OV13858_DGTL_GAIN_STEP, OV13858_DGTL_GAIN_DEFAULT);

+ ov13858->hflip = v4l2_ctrl_new_std(ctrl_hdlr, &ov13858_ctrl_ops,
+ V4L2_CID_HFLIP, 0, 1, 1, 0);
+ ov13858->vflip = v4l2_ctrl_new_std(ctrl_hdlr, &ov13858_ctrl_ops,
+ V4L2_CID_VFLIP, 0, 1, 1, 0);
+ v4l2_ctrl_cluster(2, &ov13858->hflip);
+
v4l2_ctrl_new_std_menu_items(ctrl_hdlr, &ov13858_ctrl_ops,
V4L2_CID_TEST_PATTERN,
ARRAY_SIZE(ov13858_test_pattern_menu) - 1,
--
2.54.0 (Apple Git-157)