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diff --git a/include/drm/drm_encoder.h b/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
index 4370e039c015..34b7213bfab6 100644
--- a/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
+++ b/include/drm/drm_encoder.h
@@ -159,7 +159,9 @@ struct drm_encoder {
* encoders can be used in a cloned configuration, they both should have
* each another bits set.
*
- * In reality almost every driver gets this wrong.
+ * As an exception to the above rule if the driver doesn't implement
+ * any cloning it can leave @possible_clones set to 0. The core will
+ * automagically fix this up by setting the bit for the encoder itself.
*
* Note that since encoder objects can't be hotplugged the assigned indices
* are stable and hence known before registering all objects.