drm: Update drm_device docs about embedding.
It's supported now! Spotted while reviewing Chris' patch to add a release hook. Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161208102847.3063-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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@ -323,9 +323,8 @@ void drm_minor_release(struct drm_minor *minor)
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* historical baggage. Hence use the reference counting provided by
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* drm_dev_ref() and drm_dev_unref() only carefully.
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*
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* Also note that embedding of &drm_device is currently not (yet) supported (but
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* it would be easy to add). Drivers can store driver-private data in the
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* dev_priv field of &drm_device.
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* It is recommended that drivers embed struct &drm_device into their own device
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* structure, which is supported through drm_dev_init().
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*/
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/**
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@ -462,7 +461,11 @@ static void drm_fs_inode_free(struct inode *inode)
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* Note that for purely virtual devices @parent can be NULL.
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*
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* Drivers that do not want to allocate their own device struct
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* embedding struct &drm_device can call drm_dev_alloc() instead.
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* embedding struct &drm_device can call drm_dev_alloc() instead. For drivers
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* that do embed struct &drm_device it must be placed first in the overall
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* structure, and the overall structure must be allocated using kmalloc(): The
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* drm core's release function unconditionally calls kfree() on the @dev pointer
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* when the final reference is released.
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*
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* RETURNS:
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* 0 on success, or error code on failure.
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