[PATCH] drm: document better that drivers shouldn't use drm_minor directly

Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch
Wed Jan 4 21:17:54 UTC 2023


The documentation for struct drm_minor already states this, but that's
not always that easy to find.

Also due to historical reasons we still have the minor-centric (like
drm_debugfs_create_files), but since this is now getting fixed we can
put a few more pointers in place as to how this should be done
ideally.

Motvated by some discussion with Rodrigo on irc about how drm/xe
should lay out its sysfs interfaces.

Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
Cc: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax at gmail.com>
Cc: Maíra Canal <mcanal at igalia.com>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime at cerno.tech>
Cc: Melissa Wen <mwen at igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
---
 include/drm/drm_device.h | 17 +++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/drm/drm_device.h b/include/drm/drm_device.h
index 9923c7a6885e..b40e07e004ee 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_device.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_device.h
@@ -87,10 +87,23 @@ struct drm_device {
 	 */
 	void *dev_private;
 
-	/** @primary: Primary node */
+	/**
+	 * @primary:
+	 *
+	 * Primary node. Drivers should not interact with this
+	 * directly. debugfs interface can be registered with
+	 * drm_debugfs_add_file(), and sysfs should be directly added on the
+	 * hardwire struct device @dev.
+	 */
 	struct drm_minor *primary;
 
-	/** @render: Render node */
+	/**
+	 * @render:
+	 *
+	 * Render node. Drivers should not interact with this directly ever.
+	 * Drivers should not expose any additional interfaces in debugfs or
+	 * sysfs on thise node.
+	 */
 	struct drm_minor *render;
 
 	/**
-- 
2.37.2



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