[Nouveau] [PATCH 1/2] nouveau/bl: Assign different names to interfaces

[Pierre Moreau]

On 02:40 PM - Apr 15 2016, Nick Tenney wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:25 AM, Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Pierre Moreau <pierre.morrow at free.fr>
> > wrote:
> > > On 11:06 AM - Apr 15 2016, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> > >> On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:57 AM, Pierre Moreau <pierre.morrow at free.fr>
> > wrote:
> > >> > Currently, every backlight interface created by Nouveau uses the same
> > name,
> > >> > nv_backlight. This leads to a sysfs warning as it tries to create an
> > already
> > >> > existing folder. This patch adds a incremented number to the name,
> > but keeps
> > >> > the initial name as nv_backlight, to avoid possibly breaking
> > userspace; the
> > >> > second interface will be named nv_backlight1, and so on.
> > >> >
> > >> > Fixes: fdo#86539
> >
>  I believe Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86539 is
> the preferred format. I think this is picked up by the mesa release scripts
> or some such.

Ack’ed. I’ll fix that in the v2.

Thanks!
Pierre

> 
> > >> > Signed-off-by: Pierre Moreau <pierre.morrow at free.fr>
> > >> > ---
> > >> >  drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c | 35
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> > >> >  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >> >
> > >> > diff --git a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
> > b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
> > >> > index 89eb460..914e2cb 100644
> > >> > --- a/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
> > >> > +++ b/drm/nouveau/nouveau_backlight.c
> > >> > @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@
> > >> >  #include "nouveau_reg.h"
> > >> >  #include "nouveau_encoder.h"
> > >> >
> > >> > +static atomic_t bl_interfaces_nb = { 0 };
> > >>
> > >> static data is initialized to 0, this should be unnecessary.
> > >
> > > I didn’t know that. But on the other hand, I like having it explicit,
> > and it
> > > should not add any overhead.
> >
> > It increases the size of the object file. I believe it's kernel policy
> > to avoid static initializations to 0. (Note that this doesn't hold in
> > regular user applications, just the kernel.)
> >
> >   -ilia
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