[RFC PATCH 0/2] drm: make drm_get_{connector, encoder}_name thread safe

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:58:18PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Hi all -
> 
> This series stores connector/encoder names in the relevant structs to
> make the name getters thread safe.
> 
> What say you, is the wasted memory too high a price to pay for the
> thread safety and implementation simplicity of this approach? I think
> making drm_get_connector_name and drm_get_encoder_name return allocated
> buffers makes a lot of code really ugly and error prone.

I thought we could use dev_set_name(connector->kdev, "foo").
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre