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authorMichal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>2009-04-13 14:39:41 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-13 15:04:29 -0700
commitebde441177da3bad156701d351509f34295282ab (patch)
tree816eca54fcde1e42d4ba81ab80533188724a64ee /drivers/video/vfb.c
parent513adb58685615b0b1d47a3f0d40f5352beff189 (diff)
fbdev: fix color component field length documentation
The documentation about the meaning of the color component bitfield lengths in pseudocolor modes is inconsistent. Fix it, so that it indicates the correct interpretation everywhere, i.e. that 1 << length is the number of palette entries. Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Cc: <syrjala@sci.fi> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert.uytterhoeven@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/vfb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/vfb.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/vfb.c b/drivers/video/vfb.c
index cc919ae4657..050d432c7d9 100644
--- a/drivers/video/vfb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/vfb.c
@@ -318,13 +318,16 @@ static int vfb_setcolreg(u_int regno, u_int red, u_int green, u_int blue,
* {hardwarespecific} contains width of RAMDAC
* cmap[X] is programmed to (X << red.offset) | (X << green.offset) | (X << blue.offset)
* RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue)
- *
+ *
* Pseudocolor:
- * uses offset = 0 && length = RAMDAC register width.
- * var->{color}.offset is 0
- * var->{color}.length contains widht of DAC
+ * var->{color}.offset is 0 unless the palette index takes less than
+ * bits_per_pixel bits and is stored in the upper
+ * bits of the pixel value
+ * var->{color}.length is set so that 1 << length is the number of available
+ * palette entries
* cmap is not used
* RAMDAC[X] is programmed to (red, green, blue)
+ *
* Truecolor:
* does not use DAC. Usually 3 are present.
* var->{color}.offset contains start of bitfield