[PATCH] drm/fb-helper: improve kerneldoc
Laurent Pinchart
laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Tue Feb 12 03:31:28 PST 2013
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for the patch. Just one last small comment.
On Tuesday 05 February 2013 22:43:48 Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Now that the fbdev helper interface for drivers is trimmed down,
> update the kerneldoc for all the remaining exported functions.
>
> I've tried to beat the DocBook a bit by reordering the function
> references a bit into a more sensible ordering. But that didn't work
> out at all. Hence just extend the in-code DOC: section a bit.
>
> Also remove the LOCKING: sections - especially for the setup functions
> they're totally bogus. But that's not a documentation problem, but
> simply an artifact of the current rather hazardous locking around drm
> init and even more so around fbdev setup ...
>
> v2: Some further improvements:
> - Also add documentation for drm_fb_helper_single_add_all_connectors,
> Dave Airlie didn't want me to kill this one from the fb helper
> interface.
> - Update docs for drm_fb_helper_fill_var/fix - they should be used
> from the driver's ->fb_probe callback to setup the fbdev info
> structure.
> - Clarify what the ->fb_probe callback should all do - it needs to
> setup both the fbdev info and allocate the drm framebuffer used as
> backing storage.
> - Add basic documentaation for the drm_fb_helper_funcs driver callback
> vfunc.
>
> v3: Implement clarifications Lauren Pinchart suggested in his review.
>
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> ---
> Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl | 1 +
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 148 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h | 12 ++++
> 3 files changed, 146 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
[snip]
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h b/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h
> index 973402d..a60311c 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_fb_helper.h
> @@ -48,6 +48,18 @@ struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size {
> u32 surface_depth;
> };
>
> +/**
> + * struct drm_fb_helper_funcs - driver callbacks for the fbdev emulation
> library
> + * @gamma_set: - Set the given gamma lut register on the given crtc.
> + * @gamma_get: - Read the given gamma lut register on the given crtc, used
> + * to safe the current lut when force-restoring the fbdev for e.g.
> + * kdbg.
s/safe/save/
With this changed,
Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> + * @fb_probe: - Driver callback to allocate and initialize the fbdev info
> + * structure. Futhermore it also needs to allocate the drm
> + * framebuffer used to back the fbdev.
> + *
> + * Driver callbacks used by the fbdev emulation helper library.
> + */
> struct drm_fb_helper_funcs {
> void (*gamma_set)(struct drm_crtc *crtc, u16 red, u16 green,
> u16 blue, int regno);
--
Regards,
Laurent Pinchart
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