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    "msgid": "<20190928152238.23752-1-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>",
    "date": "2019-09-28T15:22:26",
    "name": "[libcamera-devel,00/12] Improve the application-facing controls API",
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        "name": "Laurent Pinchart",
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        "From": "Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>",
        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Date": "Sat, 28 Sep 2019 18:22:26 +0300",
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        "Subject": "[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 00/12] Improve the application-facing\n\tcontrols API",
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    "content": "Hello,\n\nThis patch series attempts to improbe the application-facing controls\nAPI by making it more intuitive. The main goal is to allow accessing\ncontrols stored in requests with a simple and type-safe API:\n\n    Request *req = ...;\n    ControlList &controls = req->controls();\n    controls->set(controls::AwbEnable, false);\n    controls->set(controls::ManualExposure, 1000);\n\n    ...\n\n    int32_t exposure = controls->get(controls::ManualExposure);\n\nThe first 4 patches achieve this goal.\n\nThe next 5 patches rework the control-related classes further to make\nControlType, ControlValue and ControlRange shared between libcamera\ncontrols and V4L2 controls.\n\nFinally, the last 3 patches introduce a ControlValidator class to remove\nthe direct dependency from ControlList to Camera. A default Camera-based\nvalidator is provided, and more validators are expected, in particular\nfor IPAs where no Camera object is available.\n\nLaurent Pinchart (12):\n  libcamera: controls: Rename ControlValueType to ControlType\n  libcamera: controls: Make ControlValue get/set accessors template\n    methods\n  libcamera: controls: Use explicit 32-bit integer types\n  libcamera: controls: Improve the API towards applications\n  libcamera: controls: Remove the unused ControlList::update() method\n  libcamera: controls: Remove ControlInfo::id\n  libcamera: controls: Rename ControlInfo to ControlRange\n  libcamera: v4l2_controls: Use the ControlValue class for data storage\n  libcamera: v4l2_controls: Use the ControlRange class for control info\n  libcamera: Add ControlValidator\n  libcamera: Add ControlValidator implementation for Camera\n  libcamera: controls: Use ControlValidator to validate ControlList\n\n include/libcamera/control_ids.h           |  45 +-\n include/libcamera/controls.h              | 145 +++---\n include/libcamera/request.h               |   7 +-\n src/libcamera/camera_controls.cpp         |  53 +++\n src/libcamera/control_ids.cpp             |  72 +++\n src/libcamera/control_validator.cpp       |  45 ++\n src/libcamera/controls.cpp                | 518 ++++++++++------------\n src/libcamera/gen-controls.awk            | 106 -----\n src/libcamera/include/camera_controls.h   |  30 ++\n src/libcamera/include/control_validator.h |  27 ++\n src/libcamera/include/meson.build         |   2 +\n src/libcamera/include/v4l2_controls.h     |  21 +-\n src/libcamera/meson.build                 |  13 +-\n src/libcamera/pipeline/uvcvideo.cpp       |  52 +--\n src/libcamera/pipeline/vimc.cpp           |  36 +-\n src/libcamera/request.cpp                 |  14 +-\n src/libcamera/v4l2_controls.cpp           |  40 +-\n src/libcamera/v4l2_device.cpp             |   8 +-\n test/controls/control_info.cpp            |  62 ---\n test/controls/control_list.cpp            |  96 ++--\n test/controls/control_range.cpp           |  51 +++\n test/controls/control_value.cpp           |  12 +-\n test/controls/meson.build                 |   2 +-\n 23 files changed, 746 insertions(+), 711 deletions(-)\n create mode 100644 src/libcamera/camera_controls.cpp\n create mode 100644 src/libcamera/control_ids.cpp\n create mode 100644 src/libcamera/control_validator.cpp\n delete mode 100755 src/libcamera/gen-controls.awk\n create mode 100644 src/libcamera/include/camera_controls.h\n create mode 100644 src/libcamera/include/control_validator.h\n delete mode 100644 test/controls/control_info.cpp\n create mode 100644 test/controls/control_range.cpp"
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