[PATCH 3/4] drm/doc: integrate fb helper reference into docs

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Thu Nov 1 04:52:02 PDT 2012


Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the patch.

On Wednesday 31 October 2012 10:11:49 Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Again only minimal changes to make kerneldoc no longer shout. Plus a
> little introduction in the form of a inline DOC: section to quickly
> explain what this is all about.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

With the error below fixed,

Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>

> ---
>  Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl  |  5 +++++
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
> index 43e706e..15729eb 100644
> --- a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
> +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl
> @@ -2110,6 +2110,11 @@ void intel_crt_init(struct drm_device *dev)
>        <title>Modeset Helper Functions Reference</title>
>  !Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
>      </sect2>
> +    <sect2>
> +      <title>fbdev Helper Functions Reference</title>
> +!Pdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c fbdev helpers
> +!Edrivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> +    </sect2>
>    </sect1>
> 
>    <!-- Internals: vertical blanking -->
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c index 4d58d7e..b6e9893 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
> @@ -41,7 +41,14 @@ MODULE_AUTHOR("David Airlie, Jesse Barnes");
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DRM KMS helper");
>  MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights");
> 
> -static LIST_HEAD(kernel_fb_helper_list);
> +/**
> + * DOC: fbdev helpers
> + *
> + * The fb helper functions are useful to provide an fbdev on top of a drm
> + * kernel mode setting driver. They can be used mostly independantely from
> + * the crtc helper functions used by many drivers to implement the kernel
> + * mode setting interfaces.  static LIST_HEAD(kernel_fb_helper_list).
> + */

Unless you plan to modify the kerneldoc infrastructure to extract code from 
the comments and feed it to the compiler, I'm pretty sure this will break 
compilation ;-)

>  /* simple single crtc case helper function */
>  int drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors(struct drm_fb_helper
> *fb_helper) @@ -1291,12 +1298,14 @@ static void drm_setup_crtcs(struct
> drm_fb_helper *fb_helper)
> 
>  /**
>   * drm_helper_initial_config - setup a sane initial connector configuration
> - * @dev: DRM device
> + * @fb_helper: fb_helper device struct
> + * @bpp_sel: bpp value to use for the framebuffer configuration
>   *
>   * LOCKING:
> - * Called at init time, must take mode config lock.
> + * Called at init time by the driver to set up the @fb_helper initial
> + * configuration, must take mode config lock.
>   *
> - * Scan the CRTCs and connectors and try to put together an initial setup.
> + * Scans the CRTCs and connectors and tries to put together an initial
> + * setup. At the moment, this is a cloned configuration across all heads
> + * with a new framebuffer object as the backing store.
>   *
> @@ -1330,7 +1339,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_helper_initial_config);
> 
>  /**
>   * drm_fb_helper_hotplug_event - respond to a hotplug notification by
> - *                               probing all the outputs attached to the
> fb.
> + *                               probing all the outputs attached to the fb
>   * @fb_helper: the drm_fb_helper
>   *
>   * LOCKING:

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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