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authorSimon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>2020-12-11 19:46:31 +0100
committerSimon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>2020-12-15 16:46:31 +0100
commit9999587b684fed59eec0847bacf0d5bbd21e0a9b (patch)
tree5c75f88cfebfdfa791902056ed2bc0b85e8737a9 /drivers
parent010dbfbe7bad50f942fdc97a11ad40ba306f9707 (diff)
drm: rework description of primary and cursor planes
The previous wording could be understood by user-space evelopers as "a primary/cursor plane is only compatible with a single CRTC" [1]. Reword the planes description to make it clear the DRM-internal drm_crtc.primary and drm_crtc.cursor planes are for legacy uAPI. [1]: https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/pull/2333#discussion_r456788057 Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20201211184634.74534-1-contact@emersion.fr
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c3
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c16
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
index 8d19d258547f..a6336c7154d6 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ struct dma_fence *drm_crtc_create_fence(struct drm_crtc *crtc)
* planes). For really simple hardware which has only 1 plane look at
* drm_simple_display_pipe_init() instead.
*
+ * The @primary and @cursor planes are only relevant for legacy uAPI, see
+ * &drm_crtc.primary and &drm_crtc.cursor.
+ *
* Returns:
* Zero on success, error code on failure.
*/
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
index 385801dd21f9..5d33ca9f0032 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
@@ -49,14 +49,16 @@
* &struct drm_plane (possibly as part of a larger structure) and registers it
* with a call to drm_universal_plane_init().
*
- * Cursor and overlay planes are optional. All drivers should provide one
- * primary plane per CRTC to avoid surprising userspace too much. See enum
- * drm_plane_type for a more in-depth discussion of these special uapi-relevant
- * plane types. Special planes are associated with their CRTC by calling
- * drm_crtc_init_with_planes().
- *
* The type of a plane is exposed in the immutable "type" enumeration property,
- * which has one of the following values: "Overlay", "Primary", "Cursor".
+ * which has one of the following values: "Overlay", "Primary", "Cursor" (see
+ * enum drm_plane_type). A plane can be compatible with multiple CRTCs, see
+ * &drm_plane.possible_crtcs.
+ *
+ * Legacy uAPI doesn't expose the primary and cursor planes directly. DRM core
+ * relies on the driver to set the primary and optionally the cursor plane used
+ * for legacy IOCTLs. This is done by calling drm_crtc_init_with_planes(). All
+ * drivers should provide one primary plane per CRTC to avoid surprising legacy
+ * userspace too much.
*/
static unsigned int drm_num_planes(struct drm_device *dev)