diff --git a/src/backend/drm/legacy/mod.rs b/src/backend/drm/legacy/mod.rs
index 5a0d221..0309e73 100644
--- a/src/backend/drm/legacy/mod.rs
+++ b/src/backend/drm/legacy/mod.rs
@@ -1,13 +1,22 @@
-use super::{DevPath, Device, DeviceHandler, RawDevice, Surface};
+//!
+//! [`RawDevice`](../trait.RawDevice.html) and [`RawSurface`](../trait.RawSurface.html)
+//! implementations using the legacy mode-setting infrastructure.
+//!
+//! Usually this implementation will be wrapped into a [`GbmDevice`](../gbm/struct.GbmDevice.html).
+//! Take a look at `anvil`s source code for an example of this.
+//!
+//! For an example how to use this standalone, take a look at the `raw_drm` example.
+//!
 
-use drm::control::{connector, crtc, encoder, Device as ControlDevice, Mode, ResourceHandles, ResourceInfo};
+use super::{DevPath, Device, DeviceHandler, RawDevice};
+
+use drm::control::{connector, crtc, encoder, Device as ControlDevice, ResourceHandles, ResourceInfo};
 use drm::Device as BasicDevice;
 use nix::libc::dev_t;
 use nix::sys::stat::fstat;
 
 use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
-use std::iter::FromIterator;
 use std::os::unix::io::{AsRawFd, RawFd};
 use std::rc::{Rc, Weak};
 use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering};
@@ -23,6 +32,7 @@ use self::error::*;
 #[cfg(feature = "backend_session")]
 pub mod session;
 
+/// Open raw drm device utilizing legacy mode-setting
 pub struct LegacyDrmDevice<A: AsRawFd + 'static> {
     dev: Rc<Dev<A>>,
     dev_id: dev_t,
diff --git a/src/backend/drm/legacy/session.rs b/src/backend/drm/legacy/session.rs
index 3f75a13..0d86145 100644
--- a/src/backend/drm/legacy/session.rs
+++ b/src/backend/drm/legacy/session.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,9 @@
-use drm::control::{connector, crtc};
+//!
+//! Support to register an open [`LegacyDrmDevice`](../struct.LegacyDrmDevice.html)
+//! to an open [`Session`](../../session/trait.Session.html).
+//!
+
+use drm::control::{crtc};
 use drm::Device as BasicDevice;
 use nix::libc::dev_t;
 use nix::sys::stat;
@@ -12,7 +17,9 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 use super::{Dev, LegacyDrmDevice, LegacyDrmSurfaceInternal};
 use backend::session::{AsSessionObserver, SessionObserver};
 
-/// `SessionObserver` linked to the `DrmDevice` it was created from.
+/// [`SessionObserver`](../../session/trait.SessionObserver.html)
+/// linked to the [`LegacyDrmDevice`](../struct.LegacyDrmDevice.html)
+/// it was created from.
 pub struct LegacyDrmDeviceObserver<A: AsRawFd + 'static> {
     dev: Weak<Dev<A>>,
     dev_id: dev_t,
diff --git a/src/backend/drm/legacy/surface.rs b/src/backend/drm/legacy/surface.rs
index e1ebbd4..3a20d4d 100644
--- a/src/backend/drm/legacy/surface.rs
+++ b/src/backend/drm/legacy/surface.rs
@@ -233,17 +233,9 @@ impl<A: AsRawFd + 'static> Drop for LegacyDrmSurfaceInternal<A> {
     }
 }
 
+/// Open raw crtc utilizing legacy mode-setting
 pub struct LegacyDrmSurface<A: AsRawFd + 'static>(pub(super) Rc<LegacyDrmSurfaceInternal<A>>);
 
-impl<A: AsRawFd + 'static> AsRawFd for LegacyDrmSurface<A> {
-    fn as_raw_fd(&self) -> RawFd {
-        self.0.as_raw_fd()
-    }
-}
-
-impl<A: AsRawFd + 'static> BasicDevice for LegacyDrmSurface<A> {}
-impl<A: AsRawFd + 'static> ControlDevice for LegacyDrmSurface<A> {}
-
 impl<'a, A: AsRawFd + 'static> CursorBackend<'a> for LegacyDrmSurface<A> {
     type CursorFormat = &'a Buffer;
     type Error = Error;