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| author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2016-12-08 13:28:47 +0300 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2016-12-08 14:53:24 +0300 |
| commit | d82faafd81fe1cf2a11cbc94b05d9fd22e651d49 (patch) | |
| tree | 75738cab6d5497fef6c55d1ea321c7d08e4bd975 /drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | |
| parent | 72a93e8dd52c9feea42f1258d555e6070680a347 (diff) | |
| download | linux-d82faafd81fe1cf2a11cbc94b05d9fd22e651d49.tar.xz | |
drm: Update drm_device docs about embedding.
It's supported now! Spotted while reviewing Chris' patch to add a
release hook.
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161208102847.3063-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c index f74b7d06ec01..4ec61ac27477 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c @@ -323,9 +323,8 @@ void drm_minor_release(struct drm_minor *minor) * historical baggage. Hence use the reference counting provided by * drm_dev_ref() and drm_dev_unref() only carefully. * - * Also note that embedding of &drm_device is currently not (yet) supported (but - * it would be easy to add). Drivers can store driver-private data in the - * dev_priv field of &drm_device. + * It is recommended that drivers embed struct &drm_device into their own device + * structure, which is supported through drm_dev_init(). */ /** @@ -462,7 +461,11 @@ static void drm_fs_inode_free(struct inode *inode) * Note that for purely virtual devices @parent can be NULL. * * Drivers that do not want to allocate their own device struct - * embedding struct &drm_device can call drm_dev_alloc() instead. + * embedding struct &drm_device can call drm_dev_alloc() instead. For drivers + * that do embed struct &drm_device it must be placed first in the overall + * structure, and the overall structure must be allocated using kmalloc(): The + * drm core's release function unconditionally calls kfree() on the @dev pointer + * when the final reference is released. * * RETURNS: * 0 on success, or error code on failure. |