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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst index 5fd20a306718..cb9ae282771c 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, @@ -69,30 +69,12 @@ 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 --------------------- .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_module.h :doc: overview -Managing Ownership of the Framebuffer Aperture ----------------------------------------------- - -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_aperture.c - :doc: overview - -.. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_aperture.h - :internal: - -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_aperture.c - :export: - Device Instance and Driver Handling ----------------------------------- @@ -153,18 +135,6 @@ Managed Resources .. kernel-doc:: include/drm/drm_managed.h :internal: -Bus-specific Device Registration and PCI Support ------------------------------------------------- - -A number of functions are provided to help with device registration. The -functions deal with PCI and platform devices respectively and are only -provided for historical reasons. These are all deprecated and shouldn't -be used in new drivers. Besides that there's a few helpers for pci -drivers. - -.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/drm_pci.c - :export: - Open/Close, File Operations and IOCTLs ====================================== |