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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2019-01-11 17:40:44 +0100
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2019-01-12 13:07:30 +0100
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drm/docs: improve docs for drm_drv.c
Just a bit of drive-by reading: - drm_dev_set_unique() is really the exception, make that clear. - drm_dev_init() is the recomended approach. Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190111164048.29067-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c23
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
index a5fe91b8c3c9..381581b01d48 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c
@@ -264,14 +264,13 @@ void drm_minor_release(struct drm_minor *minor)
* DOC: driver instance overview
*
* A device instance for a drm driver is represented by &struct drm_device. This
- * is allocated with drm_dev_alloc(), usually from bus-specific ->probe()
+ * is initialized with drm_dev_init(), usually from bus-specific ->probe()
* callbacks implemented by the driver. The driver then needs to initialize all
* the various subsystems for the drm device like memory management, vblank
* handling, modesetting support and intial output configuration plus obviously
- * initialize all the corresponding hardware bits. An important part of this is
- * also calling drm_dev_set_unique() to set the userspace-visible unique name of
- * this device instance. Finally when everything is up and running and ready for
- * userspace the device instance can be published using drm_dev_register().
+ * initialize all the corresponding hardware bits. Finally when everything is up
+ * and running and ready for userspace the device instance can be published
+ * using drm_dev_register().
*
* There is also deprecated support for initalizing device instances using
* bus-specific helpers and the &drm_driver.load callback. But due to
@@ -287,9 +286,6 @@ void drm_minor_release(struct drm_minor *minor)
* Note that the lifetime rules for &drm_device instance has still a lot of
* historical baggage. Hence use the reference counting provided by
* drm_dev_get() and drm_dev_put() only carefully.
- *
- * It is recommended that drivers embed &struct drm_device into their own device
- * structure, which is supported through drm_dev_init().
*/
/**
@@ -475,6 +471,9 @@ static void drm_fs_inode_free(struct inode *inode)
* The initial ref-count of the object is 1. Use drm_dev_get() and
* drm_dev_put() to take and drop further ref-counts.
*
+ * It is recommended that drivers embed &struct drm_device into their own device
+ * structure.
+ *
* Drivers that do not want to allocate their own device struct
* embedding &struct drm_device can call drm_dev_alloc() instead. For drivers
* that do embed &struct drm_device it must be placed first in the overall
@@ -765,7 +764,7 @@ static void remove_compat_control_link(struct drm_device *dev)
* @flags: Flags passed to the driver's .load() function
*
* Register the DRM device @dev with the system, advertise device to user-space
- * and start normal device operation. @dev must be allocated via drm_dev_alloc()
+ * and start normal device operation. @dev must be initialized via drm_dev_init()
* previously.
*
* Never call this twice on any device!
@@ -877,9 +876,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_dev_unregister);
* @dev: device of which to set the unique name
* @name: unique name
*
- * Sets the unique name of a DRM device using the specified string. Drivers
- * can use this at driver probe time if the unique name of the devices they
- * drive is static.
+ * Sets the unique name of a DRM device using the specified string. This is
+ * already done by drm_dev_init(), drivers should only override the default
+ * unique name for backwards compatibility reasons.
*
* Return: 0 on success or a negative error code on failure.
*/