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| author | Dhinakaran Pandiyan | 2016-09-19 15:40:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Daniel Vetter | 2016-09-21 13:33:50 +0200 |
| commit | f15e6bb06e160eb6c0345e4636b4c3bff7a17a53 (patch) | |
| tree | b7b2c86ea101c4c8938b29c9bb793c3322fbc5c3 | |
| parent | b5a2ecd857a224c4fbeeaa4f60f09bea3fc1837e (diff) | |
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
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c index 998a6743a586..5c067719164d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_encoder.c @@ -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 |