[PATCH 04/28] drm: Make helper vtable pointers type-safe

Thierry Reding thierry.reding at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 03:01:55 PST 2015


On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 09:45:45AM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Originally the idea behind void* was to allow different sets of
> helpers. But now we have that (with probe, plane, crtc and atomic
> helpers) and we still just use the same set of vtables. That's the
> only way to make the individual helpers modular and allow drivers to
> pick&choose and transition between them. So this flexibility isn't
> really needed. Also we have lots of non-vtable data meanwhile in core
> structures too, this is not the first one at all.
> 
> Given that the void * is only trouble since gcc can't warn you if you
> mix them up. Let's fix that and make them typesafe.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> ---
>  include/drm/drm_crtc.h | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Very good:

Reviewed-by: Thierry Reding <treding at nvidia.com>
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