Lens Driver Requirements¶

libcamera handles lens devices in the CameraLens class and defines a consistent interface through its API towards other library components.

The CameraLens class uses the V4L2 subdev kernel API to interface with the camera lens through a sub-device exposed to userspace by the lens driver.

In order for libcamera to be fully operational and provide all the required information to interface with the camera lens to applications and pipeline handlers, a set of mandatory features the driver has to support has been defined.