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

[Pierre Moreau]

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> 
> > +       const int nb = atomic_inc_return(&bl_interfaces_nb) - 1;
> 
> This kinda sucks if you reload nouveau a bunch. How about using an
> "ida". Have a look in drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c for how I use that
> one.

I had a quick look at drm_crtc.c. This seems to be exactly what I need, except
that I do not see how I can enforce to have one of the active ones being named
`nv_backlight`, to not break (possibly) existing userspace applications. (I’m
guessing that I would be doing the same as in drm_crtc.c: looping over all
connectors and assigning them an ida, regardless of them being active or not,
as they might become active later on.)

There is another issue that I failed to address with this patch, and just
realised about it. Each time `nvXX_backlight_init(connector)` is called on a
connector, a new backlight device is created, and is stored in
`drm->backlight`, which is unique at a device level, not connector level,
meaning the old one just gets overriden (and leaked). Having a list
`drm->backlights` should solve this issue. Would that be fine with you Ben?

Pierre

> 
> > +       if (nb > 0 && nb < 100)
> > +               sprintf(backlight_name, "nv_backlight%d", nb);
> > +       else
> > +               sprintf(backlight_name, "nv_backlight");
> > +       return backlight_name;
> > +}
> > --
> > 2.8.0
> >
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