[PATCH] drm/doc: Improve docs for conn_state->best_encoder

Laurent Pinchart laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com
Mon May 6 14:57:53 UTC 2019


Hi Daniel,

Thank you for the patch.

On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 04:46:29PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> It's mandatory and considered core state since ioctls rely on this
> working.
> 
> Thanks to Laurent for pointing out this gap.
> 
> v2: Clarify to "atomic drivers" only.
> 
> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart at ideasonboard.com>
> Cc: Sean Paul <sean at poorly.run>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  include/drm/drm_connector.h | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/include/drm/drm_connector.h b/include/drm/drm_connector.h
> index 02a131202add..f43f40d5888a 100644
> --- a/include/drm/drm_connector.h
> +++ b/include/drm/drm_connector.h
> @@ -517,6 +517,10 @@ struct drm_connector_state {
>  	 * Used by the atomic helpers to select the encoder, through the
>  	 * &drm_connector_helper_funcs.atomic_best_encoder or
>  	 * &drm_connector_helper_funcs.best_encoder callbacks.

How about updating this part as well ?

"Used by both the DRM core and the atomic helpers to select the encoder
(through the &drm_connector_helper_funcs.atomic_best_encoder), access it
and report it to userspace (through the GETCONNECTOR and GETENCODER
ioctls). This field shall be set by all atomic drivers, either directly
or through atomic helpers."

> +	 *
> +	 * NOTE: Atomic drivers must fill this out (either themselves or through
> +	 * helpers), for otherwise the GETCONNECTOR and GETENCODER IOCTLs will
> +	 * not return correct data to userspace.
>  	 */
>  	struct drm_encoder *best_encoder;
>  

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart


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