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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2019-09-17 14:09:36 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2019-09-18 12:41:08 +0200
commit69b22f51e6644b6592087fe157537dd5f68e30bb (patch)
tree25edda2d0c6530181a299cdfe15c875611d647eb /drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c
parentaefdaa15e54c092709cb926a4b2732986386ef34 (diff)
drm/doc: Improve docs around connector (un)registration
Current code is quite a mess unfortunately, so also add a todo.rst entry to maybe fix it up eventually. Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> Reviewed-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190917120936.7501-2-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c
index 43896c711b50..4410939a088d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_connector.c
@@ -467,7 +467,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_connector_cleanup);
* drm_connector_register - register a connector
* @connector: the connector to register
*
- * Register userspace interfaces for a connector
+ * Register userspace interfaces for a connector. Only call this for connectors
+ * which can be hotplugged after drm_dev_register() has been called already,
+ * e.g. DP MST connectors. All other connectors will be registered automatically
+ * when calling drm_dev_register().
*
* Returns:
* Zero on success, error code on failure.
@@ -513,7 +516,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_connector_register);
* drm_connector_unregister - unregister a connector
* @connector: the connector to unregister
*
- * Unregister userspace interfaces for a connector
+ * Unregister userspace interfaces for a connector. Only call this for
+ * connectors which have registered explicitly by calling drm_dev_register(),
+ * since connectors are unregistered automatically when drm_dev_unregister() is
+ * called.
*/
void drm_connector_unregister(struct drm_connector *connector)
{