[PATCH] drm/amd/display: Small comment on dc_commit_planes_to_stream

Harry Wentland harry.wentland at amd.com
Tue Oct 17 00:11:09 UTC 2017


Having one struct on the stack was somewhat confusing. Also mention
that the whole function should eventually go.

Signed-off-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland at amd.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
index 7a0593d4ca62..a71392ffc46d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/display/dc/core/dc.c
@@ -918,6 +918,12 @@ bool dc_post_update_surfaces_to_stream(struct dc *dc)
 	return true;
 }
 
+/*
+ * TODO this whole function needs to go
+ *
+ * dc_surface_update is needlessly complex. See if we can just replace this
+ * with a dc_plane_state and follow the atomic model a bit more closely here.
+ */
 bool dc_commit_planes_to_stream(
 		struct dc *dc,
 		struct dc_plane_state **plane_states,
@@ -925,6 +931,7 @@ bool dc_commit_planes_to_stream(
 		struct dc_stream_state *dc_stream,
 		struct dc_state *state)
 {
+	/* no need to dynamically allocate this. it's pretty small */
 	struct dc_surface_update updates[MAX_SURFACES];
 	struct dc_flip_addrs *flip_addr;
 	struct dc_plane_info *plane_info;
-- 
2.14.1



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