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authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2023-07-15 20:52:00 +0200
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>2023-07-24 16:50:39 +0200
commitc07e1f20dcbe010ceefb7ccdeac0198222366168 (patch)
treec031701d8d7bf28cb1e2a5dd18cbc91023de4987 /drivers/video/fbdev/core
parent0444fa357c16a4c36c6c6e3ef13e690875fad208 (diff)
fbdev: Document that framebuffer_alloc() returns zero'ed data
Most fbdev drivers depend on framebuffer_alloc() to initialize the allocated memory to 0. Document this guarantee. v3: * slightly reword the sentence (Miguel) Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sui Jingfeng <suijingfeng@loongson.cn> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20230715185343.7193-19-tzimmermann@suse.de
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/fbdev/core')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c
index 8bdbefdd4b70..4847ebe50d7d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_info.c
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
*
* Creates a new frame buffer info structure. Also reserves @size bytes
* for driver private data (info->par). info->par (if any) will be
- * aligned to sizeof(long).
+ * aligned to sizeof(long). The new instances of struct fb_info and
+ * the driver private data are both cleared to zero.
*
* Returns the new structure, or NULL if an error occurred.
*