[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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