[libcamera-devel] [PATCH v2] libcamera: device_enumerator: extend documentation of DeviceMatch

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Mon Jan 21 00:06:43 CET 2019


Hi Niklas,

Thank you for the patch.

On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 03:04:35PM +0100, Niklas Söderlund wrote:
> Extend the document of the intended usage of DeviceMatch need for

s/document/documentation/

> information to correctly function to find a uniquely identifiable media

I'm not sure what you meant by the "need for information to correctly
function".

> device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund at ragnatech.se>
> ---
> * Changes since v1
> - Rephrased most of it after review comments from Laurent, Thanks!
> 
>  src/libcamera/device_enumerator.cpp | 12 ++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/libcamera/device_enumerator.cpp b/src/libcamera/device_enumerator.cpp
> index 55c510e3b79a415b..d41e1e580b3451ab 100644
> --- a/src/libcamera/device_enumerator.cpp
> +++ b/src/libcamera/device_enumerator.cpp
> @@ -52,6 +52,18 @@ namespace libcamera {
>   *
>   * The description is meant to be filled by pipeline managers and passed to a
>   * device enumerator to find matching media devices.
> + *
> + * A DeviceMatch is created with a specific Linux device driver in mind,
> + * therefore the name of the driver is a required property. One or more Entity
> + * names can be added as as match criteria.

s/as as/as/

> + *
> + * Pipeline handlers are recommended to add entities to DeviceMatch as
> + * appropriare to ensure that the media device they need can be uniquely
> + * identified. This is useful  when the corresponding kernel driver can produce

s/  / /

> + * different graphs, for instance as a result of different driver versions or
> + * hardware configurations, and not all those graphs are suitable for a pipeline
> + * handler.
> + *

s/^ \*\n//

With these fixed,

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

>   */
>  
>  /**

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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