From ab9fabeae4e71095d29216ff14f8a56e4fdda895 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxime Ripard Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 11:09:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] drm/atomic: Make the drm_atomic_state documentation less ambiguous The current documentation of drm_atomic_state says that it's the "global state object". This is confusing since, while it does contain all the objects affected by an update and their respective states, if an object isn't affected by this update it won't be part of it. Thus, it's not truly a "global state", unlike object state structures that do contain the entire state of a given object. Reviewed-by: Hamza Mahfooz Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231214100917.277842-4-mripard@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard --- include/drm/drm_atomic.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h index 914574b58ae7c..4d7f4c5f20018 100644 --- a/include/drm/drm_atomic.h +++ b/include/drm/drm_atomic.h @@ -346,7 +346,13 @@ struct __drm_private_objs_state { }; /** - * struct drm_atomic_state - the global state object for atomic updates + * struct drm_atomic_state - Atomic commit structure + * + * This structure is the kernel counterpart of @drm_mode_atomic and represents + * an atomic commit that transitions from an old to a new display state. It + * contains all the objects affected by the atomic commit and both the new + * state structures and pointers to the old state structures for + * these. * * States are added to an atomic update by calling drm_atomic_get_crtc_state(), * drm_atomic_get_plane_state(), drm_atomic_get_connector_state(), or for -- 2.30.2