[PATCH 03/44] drm/device: Deprecate dev_private harder

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Fri Apr 3 13:57:47 UTC 2020


We've had lots of conversions to embeddeding, but didn't stop using
->dev_private. Which defeats the point of this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 include/drm/drm_device.h | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/drm/drm_device.h b/include/drm/drm_device.h
index d39132b477dd..a55874db9dd4 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_device.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_device.h
@@ -88,9 +88,12 @@ struct drm_device {
 	/**
 	 * @dev_private:
 	 *
-	 * DRM driver private data. Instead of using this pointer it is
-	 * recommended that drivers use drm_dev_init() and embed struct
-	 * &drm_device in their larger per-device structure.
+	 * DRM driver private data. This is deprecated and should be left set to
+	 * NULL.
+	 *
+	 * Instead of using this pointer it is recommended that drivers use
+	 * drm_dev_init() and embed struct &drm_device in their larger
+	 * per-device structure.
 	 */
 	void *dev_private;
 
-- 
2.25.1



More information about the dri-devel mailing list