drm: document drm_property_enum.value for bitfields

When a property has the type DRM_MODE_PROP_BITMASK, the value field
stores a bitshift, not a bitmask, which can be surprising.

Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Cc: Leandro Ribeiro <leandro.ribeiro@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen@collabora.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/NUZTPTKKZtAlDhxIXFB1qrUqWBYKapkBxCnb1S1bc3g@cp3-web-033.plabs.ch
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Simon Ser 2021-07-21 06:51:30 +00:00
parent 03b7c552d0
commit 3012248fdf

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@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
/**
* struct drm_property_enum - symbolic values for enumerations
* @value: numeric property value for this enum entry
* @head: list of enum values, linked to &drm_property.enum_list
* @name: symbolic name for the enum
*
@ -39,6 +38,14 @@
* decoding for each value. This is used for example for the rotation property.
*/
struct drm_property_enum {
/**
* @value: numeric property value for this enum entry
*
* If the property has the type &DRM_MODE_PROP_BITMASK, @value stores a
* bitshift, not a bitmask. In other words, the enum entry is enabled
* if the bit number @value is set in the property's value. This enum
* entry has the bitmask ``1 << value``.
*/
uint64_t value;
struct list_head head;
char name[DRM_PROP_NAME_LEN];