Subject: support autofocus / autogain in libv4l2

From: [email-masked] (Pavel Machek)
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:53:56 +0200

On Tue 2017-04-25 12:53:27, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:
> Le mardi 25 avril 2017 ? 10:05 +0200, Pavel Machek a ?crit?:
> > Well, fd's are hard, because application can do fork() and now
> > interesting stuff happens. Threads are tricky, because now you have
> > locking etc.
> > 
> > libv4l2 is designed to be LD_PRELOADED. That is not really feasible
> > with "complex" library.
> 
> That is incorrect. The library propose an API where you simply replace
> certain low level calls, like ioctl -> v4l2_ioctl, open -> v4l2_open().
> You have to do that explicitly in your existing code. It does not
> abstract the API itself unlike libdrm.

You are right, no LD_PRELOAD. But same API as kernel, which is really
limiting -- see my other mail.

									Pavel

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