From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2017 14:20:08 +0000 (-0200)
Subject: drm: Document deprecated load/unload hook
X-Git-Url: http://git.cdn.openwrt.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=569265002782503d40fb32a45a950f2ac42af353;p=openwrt%2Fstaging%2Fblogic.git

drm: Document deprecated load/unload hook

v2:
 - Replace discouraged with deprecated
 - Link to new initialization/teardown functions

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170102142008.22174-3-krisman@collabora.co.uk
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diff --git a/include/drm/drm_drv.h b/include/drm/drm_drv.h
index c4fc49583dc0..9c2d9f0bb043 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_drv.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_drv.h
@@ -64,12 +64,47 @@ struct drm_mode_create_dumb;
  * structure for GEM drivers.
  */
 struct drm_driver {
+
+	/**
+	 * @load:
+	 *
+	 * Backward-compatible driver callback to complete
+	 * initialization steps after the driver is registered.  For
+	 * this reason, may suffer from race conditions and its use is
+	 * deprecated for new drivers.  It is therefore only supported
+	 * for existing drivers not yet converted to the new scheme.
+	 * See drm_dev_init() and drm_dev_register() for proper and
+	 * race-free way to set up a &struct drm_device.
+	 *
+	 * Returns:
+	 *
+	 * Zero on success, non-zero value on failure.
+	 */
 	int (*load) (struct drm_device *, unsigned long flags);
 	int (*firstopen) (struct drm_device *);
 	int (*open) (struct drm_device *, struct drm_file *);
 	void (*preclose) (struct drm_device *, struct drm_file *file_priv);
 	void (*postclose) (struct drm_device *, struct drm_file *);
 	void (*lastclose) (struct drm_device *);
+
+	/**
+	 * @unload:
+	 *
+	 * Reverse the effects of the driver load callback.  Ideally,
+	 * the clean up performed by the driver should happen in the
+	 * reverse order of the initialization.  Similarly to the load
+	 * hook, this handler is deprecated and its usage should be
+	 * dropped in favor of an open-coded teardown function at the
+	 * driver layer.  See drm_dev_unregister() and drm_dev_unref()
+	 * for the proper way to remove a &struct drm_device.
+	 *
+	 * The unload() hook is called right after unregistering
+	 * the device.
+	 *
+	 * Returns:
+	 *
+	 * The return value is ignored.
+	 */
 	int (*unload) (struct drm_device *);
 	int (*dma_ioctl) (struct drm_device *dev, void *data, struct drm_file *file_priv);
 	int (*dma_quiescent) (struct drm_device *);