[PATCH] drm/vblank: Simplify drm_dev_has_vblank()
Ville Syrjälä
ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Tue Apr 4 21:00:23 UTC 2023
On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 10:46:00PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:07:35AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > From: Rob Clark <robdclark at chromium.org>
> >
> > What does vblank have to do with num_crtcs? Well, this was technically
> > correct, but you'd have to go look at where num_crtcs is initialized to
> > understand why. Lets just replace it with the simpler and more obvious
> > check.
>
> If you want to fix this, then I think the right fix is to rename num_crtcs
> to be something like num_vblank_crtcs. It's a historical accident back
> when vblanks without kms was a thing.
>
> Plan B is someone gets really busy and fixes up the entire vblank mess and
> moves it into drm_crtc struct. Now that the dri1 drivers are gone we could
> indeed do that.
And easy first step could to simply wrap all the naked
&dev->vblank[drm_crtc_index()] things into a function
call with some cocci/etc. That way most of the vblank
code doesn't need to care where that thing actually lives.
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Ville Syrjälä
Intel
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