Name

drm_dev_register — Register DRM device

Synopsis

int drm_dev_register (struct drm_device * dev,
 unsigned long flags);
 

Arguments

dev

Device to register

flags

Flags passed to the driver's .load function

Description

Register the DRM device dev with the system, advertise device to user-space and start normal device operation. dev must be allocated via drm_dev_alloc previously.

Never call this twice on any device!

NOTE

To ensure backward compatibility with existing drivers method this function calls the ->load method after registering the device nodes, creating race conditions. Usage of the ->load methods is therefore deprecated, drivers must perform all initialization before calling drm_dev_register.

RETURNS

0 on success, negative error code on failure.