drm/device: Deprecate dev_private harder
authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Fri, 3 Apr 2020 13:57:47 +0000 (15:57 +0200)
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Tue, 14 Apr 2020 16:43:18 +0000 (18:43 +0200)
We've had lots of conversions to embeddeding, but didn't stop using
->dev_private. Which defeats the point of this.

Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20200403135828.2542770-4-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
include/drm/drm_device.h

index d39132b..a55874d 100644 (file)
@@ -88,9 +88,12 @@ struct drm_device {
        /**
         * @dev_private:
         *
-        * DRM driver private data. Instead of using this pointer it is
-        * recommended that drivers use drm_dev_init() and embed struct
-        * &drm_device in their larger per-device structure.
+        * DRM driver private data. This is deprecated and should be left set to
+        * NULL.
+        *
+        * Instead of using this pointer it is recommended that drivers use
+        * drm_dev_init() and embed struct &drm_device in their larger
+        * per-device structure.
         */
        void *dev_private;