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diff --git a/Documentation/guides/ipa.rst b/Documentation/guides/ipa.rst index c612470f..fc031745 100644 --- a/Documentation/guides/ipa.rst +++ b/Documentation/guides/ipa.rst @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ function of the IPAInterface. stop() informs the IPA module that the camera is stopped. The IPA module shall release resources prepared in start(). -A configure() method is recommended. Any ControlInfoMap instances that will be +A configure() function is recommended. Any ControlInfoMap instances that will be used by the IPA must be sent to the IPA from the pipeline handler, at configure time, for example. @@ -184,11 +184,11 @@ parameter, in which case it will become a regular return value. const is not allowed inside of arrays and maps. mojo arrays will become C++ std::vector<>. -By default, all methods defined in the main interface are synchronous. This +By default, all functions defined in the main interface are synchronous. This means that in the case of IPC (i.e. isolated IPA), the function call will not return until the return value or output parameters are ready. To specify an asynchronous function, the [async] attribute can be used. Asynchronous -methods must not have any return value or output parameters, since in the +functions must not have any return value or output parameters, since in the case of IPC the call needs to return immediately. It is also possible that the IPA will not be run in isolation. In this case, @@ -245,11 +245,11 @@ the camera pipeline from the IPA. The event interface must be named as IPA{pipeline_name}EventInterface. -Methods defined in the event interface are implicitly asynchronous. +Functions defined in the event interface are implicitly asynchronous. Thus they cannot return any value. Specifying the [async] tag is not necessary. -Methods defined in the event interface will become signals in the IPA +Functions defined in the event interface will become signals in the IPA interface. The IPA can emit signals, while the pipeline handler can connect slots to them. |