i915 parameters saying the same thing twice over

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Sun Feb 10 10:09:09 PST 2013


On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 05:57:20PM +0100, Toralf Förster wrote:
> IMHO the prefix i915_ for these 3 parameters in
> /sys/module/i915/parameters :
> 
> i915_enable_fbc
> i915_enable_ppgtt
> i915_enable_rc6
> 
> is superfluous, or ?

Completely superfluous; a silly copy'n'paste of the variable name into
the parameter name. However, changing those name then breaks existing
setups so we are stuck with our mistakes
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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