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diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst b/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst index 335de7fcddee..11d9a5730fb2 100644 --- a/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst +++ b/Documentation/gpu/drm-internals.rst @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ is larger than the driver minor, the DRM_IOCTL_SET_VERSION call will return an error. Otherwise the driver's set_version() method will be called with the requested version. -Name, Description and Date -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Name and Description +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ char \*name; char \*desc; char \*date; The driver name is printed to the kernel log at initialization time, @@ -69,12 +69,6 @@ The driver description is a purely informative string passed to userspace through the DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl and otherwise unused by the kernel. -The driver date, formatted as YYYYMMDD, is meant to identify the date of -the latest modification to the driver. However, as most drivers fail to -update it, its value is mostly useless. The DRM core prints it to the -kernel log at initialization time and passes it to userspace through the -DRM_IOCTL_VERSION ioctl. - Module Initialization --------------------- |