Merge tag 'media/v5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media

Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:

 - Media documentation is now split into admin-guide, driver-api and
   userspace-api books (a longstanding request from Jon);

 - The media Kconfig was reorganized, in order to make easier to select
   drivers and their dependencies;

 - The testing drivers now has a separate directory;

 - added a new driver for Rockchip Video Decoder IP;

 - The atomisp staging driver was resurrected. It is meant to work with
   4 generations of cameras on Atom-based laptops, tablets and cell
   phones. So, it seems worth investing time to cleanup this driver and
   making it in good shape.

 - Added some V4L2 core ancillary routines to help with h264 codecs;

 - Added an ov2740 image sensor driver;

 - The si2157 gained support for Analog TV, which, in turn, added
   support for some cx231xx and cx23885 boards to also support analog
   standards;

 - Added some V4L2 controls (V4L2_CID_CAMERA_ORIENTATION and
   V4L2_CID_CAMERA_SENSOR_ROTATION) to help identifying where the camera
   is located at the device;

 - VIDIOC_ENUM_FMT was extended to support MC-centric devices;

 - Lots of drivers improvements and cleanups.

* tag 'media/v5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (503 commits)
  media: Documentation: media: Refer to mbus format documentation from CSI-2 docs
  media: s5k5baf: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
  media: i2c: imx219: Drop <linux/clk-provider.h> and <linux/clkdev.h>
  media: i2c: Add ov2740 image sensor driver
  media: ov8856: Implement sensor module revision identification
  media: ov8856: Add devicetree support
  media: dt-bindings: ov8856: Document YAML bindings
  media: dvb-usb: Add Cinergy S2 PCIe Dual Port support
  media: dvbdev: Fix tuner->demod media controller link
  media: dt-bindings: phy: phy-rockchip-dphy-rx0: move rockchip dphy rx0 bindings out of staging
  media: staging: dt-bindings: phy-rockchip-dphy-rx0: remove non-used reg property
  media: atomisp: unify the version for isp2401 a0 and b0 versions
  media: atomisp: update TODO with the current data
  media: atomisp: adjust some code at sh_css that could be broken
  media: atomisp: don't produce errs for ignored IRQs
  media: atomisp: print IRQ when debugging
  media: atomisp: isp_mmu: don't use kmem_cache
  media: atomisp: add a notice about possible leak resources
  media: atomisp: disable the dynamic and reserved pools
  media: atomisp: turn on camera before setting it
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+.. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+.. document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,
+.. Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software
+.. Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts
+.. and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included at
+.. Documentation/userspace-api/media/fdl-appendix.rst.
+..
+.. TODO: replace it to GFDL-1.1-or-later WITH no-invariant-sections
+
+.. _selection-vs-crop:
+
+********************************
+Comparison with old cropping API
+********************************
+
+The selection API was introduced to cope with deficiencies of the
+older :ref:`CROP API <crop>`, that was designed to control simple
+capture devices. Later the cropping API was adopted by video output
+drivers. The ioctls are used to select a part of the display were the
+video signal is inserted. It should be considered as an API abuse
+because the described operation is actually the composing. The
+selection API makes a clear distinction between composing and cropping
+operations by setting the appropriate targets.
+
+The CROP API lacks any support for composing to and cropping from an
+image inside a memory buffer. The application could configure a
+capture device to fill only a part of an image by abusing V4L2
+API. Cropping a smaller image from a larger one is achieved by setting
+the field ``bytesperline`` at struct :c:type:`v4l2_pix_format`.
+Introducing an image offsets could be done by modifying field
+``m_userptr`` at struct :c:type:`v4l2_buffer` before calling
+:ref:`VIDIOC_QBUF <VIDIOC_QBUF>`. Those operations should be avoided
+because they are not portable (endianness), and do not work for
+macroblock and Bayer formats and mmap buffers.
+
+The selection API deals with configuration of buffer
+cropping/composing in a clear, intuitive and portable way. Next, with
+the selection API the concepts of the padded target and constraints
+flags are introduced. Finally, struct :c:type:`v4l2_crop` and struct
+:c:type:`v4l2_cropcap` have no reserved fields. Therefore there is no
+way to extend their functionality. The new struct
+:c:type:`v4l2_selection` provides a lot of place for future
+extensions.
+
+Driver developers are encouraged to implement only selection API. The
+former cropping API would be simulated using the new one.