[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v2] ipa: cam_helper.hpp: Correct a wrong choice of term

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Apr 27 08:52:42 CEST 2021


Hi Sebastian,

Thank you for the patch.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 05:27:12PM +0000, Sebastian Fricke wrote:
> Sensors provide embedded data buffers and not metadata buffers,
> replace the incorrect term with the correct one.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke at posteo.net>
> Reviewed-by: David Plowman <david.plowman at raspberrypi.com>

I still think embedded data is a type of metadata, but mentioning
embedded data explicitly is good.

Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  src/ipa/raspberrypi/cam_helper.hpp | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/ipa/raspberrypi/cam_helper.hpp b/src/ipa/raspberrypi/cam_helper.hpp
> index eaf73019..c3ed5362 100644
> --- a/src/ipa/raspberrypi/cam_helper.hpp
> +++ b/src/ipa/raspberrypi/cam_helper.hpp
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ namespace RPiController {
>  //
>  // A method to query if the sensor outputs embedded data that can be parsed.
>  //
> -// A parser to parse the metadata buffers provided by some sensors (for
> +// A parser to parse the embedded data buffers provided by some sensors (for
>  // example, the imx219 does; the ov5647 doesn't). This allows us to know for
>  // sure the exposure and gain of the frame we're looking at. CamHelper
>  // provides methods for converting analogue gains to and from the sensor's

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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