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

[David Herrmann]

Hi

CC: Dave & Daniel

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com> 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 am assuming connector_type, connector_type_id, encoder_type, and
> encoder.base.id remain unchanged for the lifetime of the
> connector/encoder - is that a correct assumption?

I like the approach. Using dev-name does not work for encoders, so I'd
keep them separate. I mean, we're talking about ~32 bytes per
connector here..

Acked-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>

Thanks
David