linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: Fix comment doc for format_modifiers

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Message-ID: <20191003135318.GH1208@intel.com>
Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 16:53:18 +0300
From:   Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...labora.com>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>,
        kernel@...labora.com, Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: Fix comment doc for format_modifiers

On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
> To human readers

The commit message is always for human readers, no need to point that
out...

> 
> "array of struct drm_format modifiers" is almost indistinguishable from
> "array of struct drm_format_modifiers", especially given that
> struct drm_format_modifier does exist.

..but this paragraph still manages to 100% confuse this particular human.

The actual code changes lgtm, so with the commit message reworded
this patch is
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>

> 
> And indeed the parameter passes an array of uint64_t rather than an array
> of structs, but the first words of the comment suggest that it passes
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...labora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> index d6ad60ab0d38..0d4f9172c0dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int create_in_format_blob(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_plane *plane
>   * @funcs: callbacks for the new plane
>   * @formats: array of supported formats (DRM_FORMAT\_\*)
>   * @format_count: number of elements in @formats
> - * @format_modifiers: array of struct drm_format modifiers terminated by
> + * @format_modifiers: array of format modifiers terminated by
>   *                    DRM_FORMAT_MOD_INVALID
>   * @type: type of plane (overlay, primary, cursor)
>   * @name: printf style format string for the plane name, or NULL for default name
> -- 
> 2.17.1
> 
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-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel

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