[PATCH v4 06/20] backlight: document inline functions in backlight.h

Sam Ravnborg sam at ravnborg.org
Fri Jul 3 18:45:32 UTC 2020


Add documentation for the inline functions in backlight.h

v2:
 - Fix spelling (Daniel)

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam at ravnborg.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones at linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson at linaro.org>
Cc: Jingoo Han <jingoohan1 at gmail.com>
---
 include/linux/backlight.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/backlight.h b/include/linux/backlight.h
index 7654fe5f1589..7d6cb61e10f5 100644
--- a/include/linux/backlight.h
+++ b/include/linux/backlight.h
@@ -268,6 +268,10 @@ struct backlight_device {
 	int use_count;
 };
 
+/**
+ * backlight_update_status - force an update of the backlight device status
+ * @bd: the backlight device
+ */
 static inline int backlight_update_status(struct backlight_device *bd)
 {
 	int ret = -ENOENT;
@@ -361,6 +365,18 @@ extern int backlight_device_set_brightness(struct backlight_device *bd, unsigned
 
 #define to_backlight_device(obj) container_of(obj, struct backlight_device, dev)
 
+/**
+ * bl_get_data - access devdata
+ * @bl_dev: pointer to backlight device
+ *
+ * When a backlight device is registered the driver has the possibility
+ * to supply a void * devdata. bl_get_data() return a pointer to the
+ * devdata.
+ *
+ * RETURNS:
+ *
+ * pointer to devdata stored while registering the backlight device.
+ */
 static inline void * bl_get_data(struct backlight_device *bl_dev)
 {
 	return dev_get_drvdata(&bl_dev->dev);
-- 
2.25.1



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