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authorChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>2021-07-21 11:01:04 +0200
committerChristian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>2021-09-03 10:11:18 +0200
commitb83dcd753dbe42d5e7467ab65124f3d0a6002dc3 (patch)
treecdf2a34fe1f684688851eadaaa5cd8d4d3d2a2fc /include/linux/dma-fence.h
parentcba3ae8b3238a943ddd4d49952ab6917c009c3de (diff)
dma-buf: clarify dma_fence_ops->wait documentation
This callback is pretty much deprecated and should not be used by new implementations. Clarify that in the documentation as well. Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210901120240.7339-2-christian.koenig@amd.com
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/dma-fence.h')
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dma-fence.h b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
index 4cc119ab272f..a706b7bf51d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/dma-fence.h
+++ b/include/linux/dma-fence.h
@@ -214,19 +214,15 @@ struct dma_fence_ops {
* Custom wait implementation, defaults to dma_fence_default_wait() if
* not set.
*
- * The dma_fence_default_wait implementation should work for any fence, as long
- * as @enable_signaling works correctly. This hook allows drivers to
- * have an optimized version for the case where a process context is
- * already available, e.g. if @enable_signaling for the general case
- * needs to set up a worker thread.
+ * Deprecated and should not be used by new implementations. Only used
+ * by existing implementations which need special handling for their
+ * hardware reset procedure.
*
* Must return -ERESTARTSYS if the wait is intr = true and the wait was
* interrupted, and remaining jiffies if fence has signaled, or 0 if wait
* timed out. Can also return other error values on custom implementations,
* which should be treated as if the fence is signaled. For example a hardware
* lockup could be reported like that.
- *
- * This callback is optional.
*/
signed long (*wait)(struct dma_fence *fence,
bool intr, signed long timeout);