drm: Update docs for legacy kms state

Point at the equivalent atomic state and explain that atomic drivers
shouldn't really depend upon legacy state.

Motivated by questions from Manasi about how this all is supposed to
work.

Cc: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171108203007.12274-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch

3 files changed, 22 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/drm/drm_connector.h b/include/drm/drm_connector.h
index b34904dc8b9b..b81b7fb846f9 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_connector.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_connector.h
@@ -699,7 +699,6 @@ struct drm_cmdline_mode {
  * @force: a DRM_FORCE_<foo> state for forced mode sets
  * @override_edid: has the EDID been overwritten through debugfs for testing?
  * @encoder_ids: valid encoders for this connector
- * @encoder: encoder driving this connector, if any
  * @eld: EDID-like data, if present
  * @latency_present: AV delay info from ELD, if found
  * @video_latency: video latency info from ELD, if found
@@ -869,7 +868,13 @@ struct drm_connector {
 
 #define DRM_CONNECTOR_MAX_ENCODER 3
 	uint32_t encoder_ids[DRM_CONNECTOR_MAX_ENCODER];
-	struct drm_encoder *encoder; /* currently active encoder */
+	/**
+	 * @encoder: Currently bound encoder driving this connector, if any.
+	 * Only really meaningful for non-atomic drivers. Atomic drivers should
+	 * instead look at &drm_connector_state.best_encoder, and in case they
+	 * need the CRTC driving this output, &drm_connector_state.crtc.
+	 */
+	struct drm_encoder *encoder;
 
 #define MAX_ELD_BYTES	128
 	/* EDID bits */
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_encoder.h b/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
index 8d8245ec0181..c3ca2278ea6e 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
@@ -88,7 +88,6 @@ struct drm_encoder_funcs {
  * @head: list management
  * @base: base KMS object
  * @name: human readable name, can be overwritten by the driver
- * @crtc: currently bound CRTC
  * @bridge: bridge associated to the encoder
  * @funcs: control functions
  * @helper_private: mid-layer private data
@@ -166,6 +165,11 @@ struct drm_encoder {
 	 */
 	uint32_t possible_clones;
 
+	/**
+	 * @crtc: Currently bound CRTC, only really meaningful for non-atomic
+	 * drivers.  Atomic drivers should instead check
+	 * &drm_connector_state.crtc.
+	 */
 	struct drm_crtc *crtc;
 	struct drm_bridge *bridge;
 	const struct drm_encoder_funcs *funcs;
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_plane.h b/include/drm/drm_plane.h
index 82a217bd77f0..68bf66473faa 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_plane.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_plane.h
@@ -474,8 +474,6 @@ enum drm_plane_type {
  * @format_types: array of formats supported by this plane
  * @format_count: number of formats supported
  * @format_default: driver hasn't supplied supported formats for the plane
- * @crtc: currently bound CRTC
- * @fb: currently bound fb
  * @old_fb: Temporary tracking of the old fb while a modeset is ongoing. Used by
  * 	drm_mode_set_config_internal() to implement correct refcounting.
  * @funcs: helper functions
@@ -512,7 +510,17 @@ struct drm_plane {
 	uint64_t *modifiers;
 	unsigned int modifier_count;
 
+	/**
+	 * @crtc: Currently bound CRTC, only really meaningful for non-atomic
+	 * drivers.  Atomic drivers should instead check &drm_plane_state.crtc.
+	 */
 	struct drm_crtc *crtc;
+
+	/**
+	 * @fb: Currently bound framebuffer, only really meaningful for
+	 * non-atomic drivers.  Atomic drivers should instead check
+	 * &drm_plane_state.fb.
+	 */
 	struct drm_framebuffer *fb;
 
 	struct drm_framebuffer *old_fb;