X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=drivers%2Fmedia%2Fvideo%2Fpwc%2Fphilips.txt;h=f9f3584281d864a4e837c4a7489c2359c531859c;hb=3007703db804b7e6e9f5e3cca9e3a661e0ff3eb2;hp=11f751a6bda5abf0d428d4b92d851fc7e75c1dd1;hpb=2e1ca21d46aaef95101723fa402f39d3a95aba59;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git diff --git a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt index 11f751a6bda..f9f3584281d 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt +++ b/drivers/media/video/pwc/philips.txt @@ -54,9 +54,9 @@ fps Specifies the desired framerate. Is an integer in the range of 4-30. fbufs - This paramter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing + This parameter specifies the number of internal buffers to use for storing frames from the cam. This will help if the process that reads images from - the cam is a bit slow or momentarely busy. However, on slow machines it + the cam is a bit slow or momentarily busy. However, on slow machines it only introduces lag, so choose carefully. The default is 3, which is reasonable. You can set it between 2 and 5. @@ -175,8 +175,8 @@ dev_hint - If a device node is already occupied, registration will fail and the webcam is not available. - You can have up to 64 video devices; be sure to make enough device - nodes in /dev if you want to spread the numbers (this does not apply - to devfs). After /dev/video9 comes /dev/video10 (not /dev/videoA). + nodes in /dev if you want to spread the numbers. + After /dev/video9 comes /dev/video10 (not /dev/videoA). - If a camera does not match any dev_hint, it will simply get assigned the first available device node, just as it used to be. @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ trace 128 0x80 PWCX debugging Off - For example, to trace the open() & read() fuctions, sum 8 + 4 = 12, + For example, to trace the open() & read() functions, sum 8 + 4 = 12, so you would supply trace=12 during insmod or modprobe. If you want to turn the initialization and probing tracing off, set trace=0. The default value for trace is 35 (0x23).