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| author | Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> | 2024-04-29 19:43:36 +0300 |
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| committer | Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> | 2024-05-08 15:31:58 +0300 |
| commit | 7fb8af6798e8d013017e4607505f58d9942fd671 (patch) | |
| tree | b10b3f29354a8b8dc387e58c5e94c60d0b82d1ec /Documentation | |
| parent | ef283674a17e000bb6b2ff05dd2ac5cbf2e3ae0d (diff) | |
drm: deprecate driver date
The driver date serves no useful purpose, because it's hardly ever
updated. The information is misleading at best.
As described in Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst:
The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date
of the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers
fail to update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it
to the kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace
through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
Stop printing the driver date at init, and start returning the empty
string "" as driver date through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl.
The driver date initialization in drivers and the struct drm_driver date
member can be removed in follow-up.
Reviewed-by: Hamza Mahfooz <hamza.mahfooz@amd.com>
Acked-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20240429164336.1406480-1-jani.nikula@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst index 335de7fcddee..11d9a5730fb2 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ is larger than the driver minor, the DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION call will return an error. Otherwise the driver's set_version() method will be called with the requested version. -Name, Description and Date -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Name and Description +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ char \*name; char \*desc; char \*date; The driver name is printed to the kernel log at initialization time, @@ -69,12 +69,6 @@ The driver description is a purely informative string passed to userspace through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl and otherwise unused by the kernel. -The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date of -the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers fail to -update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it to the -kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace through the -DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. - Module Initialization --------------------- |