From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thierry Reding Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] drm: Document how to register devices without struct drm_bus Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 17:30:50 +0200 Message-ID: <1399995050-28435-8-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> References: <1399995050-28435-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1399995050-28435-1-git-send-email-thierry.reding@gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dri-devel-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "dri-devel" To: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Russell King , dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org From: Thierry Reding With the recent addition of the drm_set_unique() function, devices can now be registered without requiring a drm_bus. Add a brief description to the DRM docbook to show how that can be achieved. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding --- Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl index f26a8e4fbe47..f48227caf41a 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/drm.tmpl @@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ to register it with the DRM subsystem. + Newer drivers that no longer require a drm_bus + structure can alternatively use the low-level device initialization and + registration functions such as drm_dev_alloc() and + drm_dev_register() directly. + + The drm_driver structure contains static information that describes the driver and features it supports, and pointers to methods that the DRM core will call to implement the DRM API. @@ -290,6 +296,29 @@ char *date; !Fdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_pci.c drm_pci_init drm_pci_exit !Fdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_usb.c drm_usb_init drm_usb_exit !Fdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_platform.c drm_platform_init + + New drivers that no longer rely on the services provided by the + drm_bus structure can call the low-level + device registration functions directly. The + drm_dev_alloc() function can be used to allocate + and initialize a new drm_device structure. + Drivers will typically want to perform some additional setup on this + structure, such as allocating driver-specific data and storing a + pointer to it in the DRM device's dev_private + field. Drivers should also set the device's unique name using the + drm_set_unique() function. After it has been set up + a device can be registered with the DRM subsystem by calling + drm_dev_register(). This will cause the device to + be exposed to userspace and will call the driver's + .load() implementation. When a device is + removed, the DRM device can safely be unregistered and freed using a + call to drm_put_dev(). + +!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c drm_dev_alloc +!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c drm_set_unique +!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c drm_dev_register +!Fdrivers/gpu/drm/drm_stub.c drm_put_dev + Driver Load -- 1.9.2