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authorLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>2020-02-26 13:24:25 +0200
committerTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>2020-02-26 13:31:20 +0200
commit282f713c65f74b34df013759485995f7a7ddd4ab (patch)
treec3d6ad498071a5922f24c9498c7a2f34242205a2 /include/drm/drm_bridge.h
parentbe39f3db0146152b1f0b55df0891b7479f7e9f46 (diff)
downloadlinux-282f713c65f74b34df013759485995f7a7ddd4ab.tar.gz
drm/bridge: Fix atomic state ops documentation
The drm_bridge_funcs atomic_state_duplicate and atomic_state_destroy
operations are erroneously documented as having a default implementation
if not implemented in bridge drivers. This isn't correct, fix the
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200226112514.12455-6-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/drm/drm_bridge.h')
-rw-r--r--include/drm/drm_bridge.h20
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_bridge.h b/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
index 999faaaab9a1..38de129d5947 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_bridge.h
@@ -349,9 +349,11 @@ struct drm_bridge_funcs {
 	 * Duplicate the current bridge state object (which is guaranteed to be
 	 * non-NULL).
 	 *
-	 * The atomic_duplicate_state() hook is optional. When not implemented
-	 * the core allocates a drm_bridge_state object and calls
-	 * __drm_atomic_helper_bridge_duplicate_state() to initialize it.
+	 * The atomic_duplicate_state hook is mandatory if the bridge
+	 * implements any of the atomic hooks, and should be left unassigned
+	 * otherwise. For bridges that don't subclass &drm_bridge_state, the
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_bridge_duplicate_state() helper function shall be
+	 * used to implement this hook.
 	 *
 	 * RETURNS:
 	 * A valid drm_bridge_state object or NULL if the allocation fails.
@@ -364,8 +366,11 @@ struct drm_bridge_funcs {
 	 * Destroy a bridge state object previously allocated by
 	 * &drm_bridge_funcs.atomic_duplicate_state().
 	 *
-	 * The atomic_destroy_state hook is optional. When not implemented the
-	 * core calls kfree() on the state.
+	 * The atomic_destroy_state hook is mandatory if the bridge implements
+	 * any of the atomic hooks, and should be left unassigned otherwise.
+	 * For bridges that don't subclass &drm_bridge_state, the
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_bridge_destroy_state() helper function shall be
+	 * used to implement this hook.
 	 */
 	void (*atomic_destroy_state)(struct drm_bridge *bridge,
 				     struct drm_bridge_state *state);
@@ -474,7 +479,10 @@ struct drm_bridge_funcs {
 	 * This function is called at attach time.
 	 *
 	 * The atomic_reset hook is mandatory if the bridge implements any of
-	 * the atomic hooks, and should be left unassigned otherwise.
+	 * the atomic hooks, and should be left unassigned otherwise. For
+	 * bridges that don't subclass &drm_bridge_state, the
+	 * drm_atomic_helper_bridge_reset() helper function shall be used to
+	 * implement this hook.
 	 *
 	 * Note that the atomic_reset() semantics is not exactly matching the
 	 * reset() semantics found on other components (connector, plane, ...).