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-rw-r--r--drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
index deefb24649b2..a1a02cdd8883 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
@@ -151,7 +151,11 @@ static void drm_crtc_unregister_all(struct drm_device *dev)
* @funcs: callbacks for the new CRTC
* @name: printf style format string for the CRTC name, or NULL for default name
*
- * Inits a new object created as base part of a driver crtc object.
+ * Inits a new object created as base part of a driver crtc object. Drivers
+ * should use this function instead of drm_crtc_init(), which is only provided
+ * for backwards compatibility with drivers which do not yet support universal
+ * planes). For really simple hardware which has only 1 plane look at
+ * drm_simple_display_pipe_init() instead.
*
* Returns:
* Zero on success, error code on failure.