[PATCH v2 1/3] drm: writeback: Fix doc that says connector should be disconnected

Alexandru Gheorghe alexandru-cosmin.gheorghe at arm.com
Fri Jul 13 15:10:58 UTC 2018


During iteration process one of the proposed mechanism for not
breaking existing userspace was to report writeback connectors as
disconnected, however the final version used
DRM_CLIENT_CAP_WRITEBACK_CONNECTORS for that purpose.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Gheorghe <alexandru-cosmin.gheorghe at arm.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c
index 8273950..e7b6e5e 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_writeback.c
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
  * from a CRTC to a memory buffer. They are used and act similarly to other
  * types of connectors, with some important differences:
  *  - Writeback connectors don't provide a way to output visually to the user.
- *  - Writeback connectors should always report as "disconnected" (so that
- *    clients which don't understand them will ignore them).
+ *  - Writeback connectors are visible to userspace only when the client sets
+ *    DRM_CLIENT_CAP_WRITEBACK_CONNECTORS.
  *  - Writeback connectors don't have EDID.
  *
  * A framebuffer may only be attached to a writeback connector when the
-- 
2.7.4



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