[libcamera-devel] [PATCH 5/5] Documentation: guides: pipeline-handler: Fix capture flag usage

Nícolas F. R. A. Prado nfraprado at collabora.com
Fri Mar 19 13:19:38 CET 2021


Em 2021-03-18 21:02, Laurent Pinchart escreveu:

> Hi Nicolas,
>
> Thank you for the patch.
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 06:21:20AM +0100, Sebastian Fricke wrote:
> > Hey Nícolas,
> > 
> > Thank you for the patch.
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Sebastian Fricke <sebastian.fricke at posteo.net>
> > 
> > On 17.03.2021 16:28, Nícolas F. R. A. Prado wrote:
> > > The number of frames passed to the -C flag of cam should come right
> > > after it, without a space, otherwise the value is discarded.
> > > The log below already showed the correct usage, but the command in the
> > > code-block was wrong, so fix it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado at collabora.com>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst b/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst
> > > index bcce86793ccd..8ef83fea9837 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/guides/pipeline-handler.rst
> > > @@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ capture through the pipeline through both of the cam and qcam utilities.
> > >  .. code-block:: shell
> > > 
> > >     ninja -C build
> > > -   ./build/src/cam/cam -c vivid -C 5
> > > +   ./build/src/cam/cam -c vivid -C5
> > 
> > I think this could be even more descriptive by writing:
> > ```
> > ./build/src/cam/cam --camera=vivid --capture=5
> > ```
> > But that is probably just my own preference.
>
> That's nice too. I don't have a strong preference. I'll push patch 1/5
> to 4/5 already, and let you (Nicolas) decide what option you prefer for
> this.

I agree with Sebastian that using `--capture=` is more descriptive, but that
usage is obvious from the `--help`, while the lack of space after `-C` is not.
So I'd keep the `-C` usage (moreover, people are lazy and will use the shorter
forms, so it should be clear how to do so :)).

Thanks,
Nícolas

>
> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
>
> > >
> > >  To test that the pipeline handler can detect a device, and capture input.
> > >
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Laurent Pinchart


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