Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: big snip Theodore, You're considering just one subset of the V4L usages: notebook webcams. Actually, the sq905 cameras are not notebook webcams. They are cheap, consumer

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: big snip Theodore, You're considering just one subset of

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Thomas Kaiser wrote: Also an overview is often very helpful. Also trying to visualize what might be needed in the future is helpful. All of this can be extremely helpful. But not everyone can see or imagine every possible thing. For example, it seems that some of the

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-24 Thread kilgota
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:12:00 -0600 (CST) kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: For sure we need to have a way for retrieving this information for devices like the sq905 cameras, where the information can't be currently be determined by

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-23 Thread kilgota
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Adam Baker wrote: On Monday 23 February 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 12:53:57 +0100 Hans Verkuil hverk...@xs4all.nl wrote: Hi Adam, Sorry for the late reply, it's been very busy. Me too. big snip The interest in detecting if a driver

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-22 Thread kilgota
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Hans de Goede wrote: kilg...@banach.math.auburn.edu wrote: snip Hans and Adam, I am not sure how it fits into the above discussion, but perhaps it is relevant to point out that flags can be toggled. Here is what I mean: Suppose that we have two flags 01 and 10

Re: [RFC] How to pass camera Orientation to userspace

2009-02-22 Thread kilgota
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, Hans de Goede wrote: big snip Yes that is what we are talking about, the camera having a gravity switch (usually nothing as advanced as a gyroscope). Also the bits we are talking about are in a struct which communicates information one way, from the camera to