[PATCH 2/5] drm: Compile out legacy chunks from struct drm_device

Maxime Ripard maxime at cerno.tech
Fri Oct 23 15:10:37 UTC 2020


On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 02:28:08PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> This means some very few #ifdef in code, but it allows us to
> enlist the compiler to make sure this stuff isn't used anymore.
> 
> More important, only legacy drivers change drm_device (for the
> legacy_dev_list shadow attach management), therefore this is
> prep to allow modern drivers to have a const driver struct. Which
> is nice, because there's a ton of function pointers in there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at intel.com>
> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard at kernel.org>

Maxime
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