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From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
To: Vincent Fazio <vfazio@xes-inc.com>,
	Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>,
	 Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	 Erik Schilling <erik.schilling@linaro.org>,
	 Phil Howard <phil@gadgetoid.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>,
	 linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH libgpiod v3 07/16] dbus: daemon: add a more detailed description to help text
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:22:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250206-improve-docs-v3-7-2065191fff6f@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250206-improve-docs-v3-0-2065191fff6f@linaro.org>

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>

In preparation for adding man pages for the daemon and the command-line
client, add a detailed description of what gpio-manager is and does to
the output presented to user when they pass --help as argument.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
---
 dbus/manager/gpio-manager.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dbus/manager/gpio-manager.c b/dbus/manager/gpio-manager.c
index d34c7ea..03ca7ab 100644
--- a/dbus/manager/gpio-manager.c
+++ b/dbus/manager/gpio-manager.c
@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ static void print_version_and_exit(void)
 
 static void parse_opts(int argc, char **argv)
 {
+	static const char *const description =
+"The gpio-manager is the reference implementation of the GPIO D-Bus API\n"
+"built on top of libgpiod. It serves as the central authority managing GPIO\n"
+"chips and lines, exposing their functionalities to other applications\n"
+"through the D-Bus interface. It supports operations such as requesting,\n"
+"releasing, and setting line values, as well as monitoring events like rising\n"
+"or falling edges and line property changes.";
+
 	gboolean ret, opt_debug = FALSE, opt_version = FALSE;
 	g_autoptr(GOptionContext) ctx = NULL;
 	g_auto(GStrv) remaining = NULL;
@@ -118,6 +126,7 @@ static void parse_opts(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	ctx = g_option_context_new(NULL);
 	g_option_context_set_summary(ctx, "D-Bus daemon managing GPIOs.");
+	g_option_context_set_description(ctx, description);
 	g_option_context_add_main_entries(ctx, opts, NULL);
 
 	ret = g_option_context_parse(ctx, &argc, &argv, &err);

-- 
2.45.2


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-02-06 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-06 12:21 [PATCH libgpiod v3 00/16] doc: improvements for ReadTheDocs Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:21 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 01/16] build: set PACKAGE_URL Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:21 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 02/16] bindings: cxx: doc: remove the gpiod_cxx doxygen group Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 03/16] bindings: python: doc: update the docstring for gpiod.request_lines() Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 04/16] bindings: python: doc: make code examples appear as such in sphinx Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 05/16] bindings: python: doc: describe undocumented members Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 06/16] bindings: glib: add the configuration file for gi-docgen Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` Bartosz Golaszewski [this message]
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 08/16] dbus: client: tweak help text Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 09/16] dbus: improve comments in API xml Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 10/16] doc: create man entries for gpio-manager and gpiocli Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 11/16] doc: provide sphinx docs for the core C API and C++ bindings Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-10 14:53   ` [External] - " Vincent Fazio
2025-02-11 12:19     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 12/16] doc: add documentation for python bindings Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 13/16] doc: add documentation for GLib bindings Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-10 15:10   ` [External] - " Vincent Fazio
2025-02-11 12:51     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 14/16] doc: add documentation for gpio-tools Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 15/16] doc: add documentation for D-Bus API, daemon and command-line client Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-06 12:22 ` [PATCH libgpiod v3 16/16] doc: move README contents to sphinx docs Bartosz Golaszewski
2025-02-10 13:48   ` [External] - " Vincent Fazio

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