redonkable
/
remarkable-linux
1
0
Fork 0
Code Releases Activity

drm: Fix typo in encoder docs 

Corrected typo in bridge and encoder comparison. Also, added a one-line
encoder description from the previous documentation.

Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Archit Taneja <architt@codeaurora.org>

Signed-off-by: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1474324848-6446-1-git-send-email-dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com
steinar/wifi_calib_4_9_kernel
Dhinakaran Pandiyan 2016-09-19 15:40:48 -07:00 committed by Daniel Vetter
parent b5a2ecd857
commit f15e6bb06e
1 changed files with 9 additions and 8 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

17
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c
View File

@ -31,20 +31,21 @@
*
* Encoders represent the connecting element between the CRTC (as the overall
* pixel pipeline, represented by struct &drm_crtc) and the connectors (as the
* generic sink entity, represented by struct &drm_connector). Encoders are
* objects exposed to userspace, originally to allow userspace to infer cloning
* and connector/CRTC restrictions. Unfortunately almost all drivers get this
* wrong, making the uabi pretty much useless. On top of that the exposed
* restrictions are too simple for todays hardware, and the recommend way to
* infer restrictions is by using the DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_TEST_ONLY flag for the
* atomic IOCTL.
* generic sink entity, represented by struct &drm_connector). An encoder takes
* pixel data from a CRTC and converts it to a format suitable for any attached
* connector. Encoders are objects exposed to userspace, originally to allow
* userspace to infer cloning and connector/CRTC restrictions. Unfortunately
* almost all drivers get this wrong, making the uabi pretty much useless. On
* top of that the exposed restrictions are too simple for today's hardware, and
* the recommended way to infer restrictions is by using the
* DRM_MODE_ATOMIC_TEST_ONLY flag for the atomic IOCTL.
*
* Otherwise encoders aren't used in the uapi at all (any modeset request from
* userspace directly connects a connector with a CRTC), drivers are therefore
* free to use them however they wish. Modeset helper libraries make strong use
* of encoders to facilitate code sharing. But for more complex settings it is
* usually better to move shared code into a separate &drm_bridge. Compared to
* encoders bridges also have the benefit of not being purely an internal
* encoders, bridges also have the benefit of being purely an internal
* abstraction since they are not exposed to userspace at all.
*
* Encoders are initialized with drm_encoder_init() and cleaned up using