From 71e188f58ff50559b22ea14d2102f04fb3cc7026 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:40:24 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] libcamera: properties: Add a pipeline handler name property

Allow the camera properties to report what pipeline handler is managing
the camera device.

Reviewed-by: Jacopo Mondi <jacopo.mondi@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham@ideasonboard.com>
---
 src/libcamera/property_ids_core.yaml | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/libcamera/property_ids_core.yaml b/src/libcamera/property_ids_core.yaml
index 834454a4..d5b3d309 100644
--- a/src/libcamera/property_ids_core.yaml
+++ b/src/libcamera/property_ids_core.yaml
@@ -701,4 +701,13 @@ controls:
 
         Different cameras may report identical devices.
 
+  - PipelineHandler:
+      type: string
+      description: |
+        The name of the pipeline handler that manages this camera device.o
+
+        This property is meant to help development, debugging and support. The
+        pipeline handler name is not guaranteed to be stable across libcamera
+        releases.
+
 ...