[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 08/26] drm: Consolidate connector arrays in drm_atomic_state

[Daniel Vetter]

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Ville Syrjälä
<ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>> state->connectors[i].connector is really long, and makes a lot of code
>> look ugly. "obj" might be a bit better than "ptr" at least. Something
>> else?
>
> How often are you expecting to have to type this anyway? Using any
> kind of generic name here will make life harder for cscope users.
> Atomic is really bad in this regard, escecially with all the identically
> named function pointers. It's seriosuly hard to navigate that maze
> these days. Someone should do a bit of renaming of stuff to make
> things more unique.

We have the same aliasing with legacy hooks shared between
encoder/bridge&crtc. I just always search for the containing structure
since indeed there's no other way to find stuff. Plus big screens ;-)
-Daniel
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