childproxy: add a few more comments

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/gst/gstchildproxy.c b/gst/gstchildproxy.c
index dfaae529c1..cceabaa6f0 100644
--- a/gst/gstchildproxy.c
+++ b/gst/gstchildproxy.c
@@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ gst_child_proxy_get_children_count (GstChildProxy * parent)
  *
  * Looks up which object and #GParamSpec would be effected by the given @name.
  *
+ * MT safe.
+ *
  * Returns: TRUE if @target and @pspec could be found. FALSE otherwise. In that
  * case the values for @pspec and @target are not modified. Unref @target after
- * usage.
- *
- * MT safe.
+ * usage.  For plain GObjects @target is the same as @object.
  */
 gboolean
 gst_child_proxy_lookup (GstObject * object, const gchar * name,
@@ -183,6 +183,7 @@ gst_child_proxy_lookup (GstObject * object, const gchar * name,
   gst_object_ref (object);
 
   current = names = g_strsplit (name, "::", -1);
+  // find the owner of the property
   while (current[1]) {
     GstObject *next;
 
@@ -202,6 +203,8 @@ gst_child_proxy_lookup (GstObject * object, const gchar * name,
     object = next;
     current++;
   }
+
+  // look for psec
   if (current[1] == NULL) {
     GParamSpec *spec =
         g_object_class_find_property (G_OBJECT_GET_CLASS (object), current[0]);