[PATCH] drm: add drm device name

[Daniel Vetter]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:12 AM Christian König
<ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Am 17.09.19 um 07:47 schrieb Jani Nikula:
> > On Mon, 16 Sep 2019, Marek Olšák <maraeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The purpose is to get rid of all PCI ID tables for all drivers in
> >> userspace. (or at least stop updating them)
> >>
> >> Mesa common code and modesetting will use this.
> > I'd think this would warrant a high level description of what you want
> > to achieve in the commit message.
>
> And maybe explicitly call it uapi_name or even uapi_driver_name.

If it's uapi_name, then why do we need a new one for every generation?
Userspace drivers tend to span a lot more than just 1 generation. And
if you want to have per-generation data from the kernel to userspace,
then imo that's much better suited in some amdgpu ioctl, instead of
trying to encode that into the driver name.
-Daniel
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