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-rw-r--r--include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h12
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
index 72478cf82147..69c3974bf133 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_modeset_helper_vtables.h
@@ -999,10 +999,14 @@ struct drm_mode_config_helper_funcs {
* to implement blocking and nonblocking commits easily. It is not used
* by the atomic helpers
*
- * This hook should first commit the given atomic state to the hardware.
- * But drivers can add more waiting calls at the start of their
- * implementation, e.g. to wait for driver-internal request for implicit
- * syncing, before starting to commit the update to the hardware.
+ * This function is called when the new atomic state has already been
+ * swapped into the various state pointers. The passed in state
+ * therefore contains copies of the old/previous state. This hook should
+ * commit the new state into hardware. Note that the helpers have
+ * already waited for preceeding atomic commits and fences, but drivers
+ * can add more waiting calls at the start of their implementation, e.g.
+ * to wait for driver-internal request for implicit syncing, before
+ * starting to commit the update to the hardware.
*
* After the atomic update is committed to the hardware this hook needs
* to call drm_atomic_helper_commit_hw_done(). Then wait for the upate