[PATCH] drm/doc: clarify how to acquire required vblank event reference

Stefan Agner stefan at agner.ch
Tue Aug 7 20:11:43 UTC 2018


As a driver write it is not entirely obvious that a reference to
the event e mentioned in the doc can be obtained via
drm_crtc_vblank_get(). Clarify how to obtain the reference.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan at agner.ch>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
index 28cdcf76b6f9..7610ff466ef9 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_vblank.c
@@ -873,8 +873,8 @@ static void send_vblank_event(struct drm_device *dev,
  * handler by calling drm_crtc_send_vblank_event() and make sure that there's no
  * possible race with the hardware committing the atomic update.
  *
- * Caller must hold a vblank reference for the event @e, which will be dropped
- * when the next vblank arrives.
+ * Caller must hold a vblank reference for the event @e acquired by a
+ * drm_crtc_vblank_get(), which will be dropped when the next vblank arrives.
  */
 void drm_crtc_arm_vblank_event(struct drm_crtc *crtc,
 			       struct drm_pending_vblank_event *e)
-- 
2.18.0



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