[PATCH] drm/nouveau: Remove surplus struct member
Philipp Stanner
phasta at mailbox.org
Fri Aug 1 19:33:22 UTC 2025
On Fri, 2025-08-01 at 15:42 +0000, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-08-01 at 17:12 +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> > On Fri Aug 1, 2025 at 4:50 PM CEST, Timur Tabi wrote:
> > > Does mean that the TODO has been done, or that someone completely forgot and now your patch
> > > is
> > > remove all reminders?
> > >
> > > If it's the format, maybe add a fixes: tag for the commit that resolved the TODO?
> >
> > The TODO was introduced by commit ebb945a94bba ("drm/nouveau: port all engines
> > to new engine module format") from 2012.
> >
> > It's a bit hard to know what exactly resolves "this will be reworked in the near
> > future" for a commit with the following diffstat. :)
> >
> > 146 files changed, 14219 insertions(+), 11099 deletions(-)
> >
> > The last remains of accel_done were removed with commit
> > 4e2ec2500bfc ("drm/nouveau: Remove file nouveau_fbcon.c"), but I don't think we
> > should mention this commit, given that apparently no one knows what was intended
> > to be reworked here [1].
> >
> > We could mention the above in the commit message, though it will also be
> > available through the lore link in the commit message once the patch is applied.
>
> It's your call, I'm just leery of removing a TODO without any mention of whether it's actually
> done.
We can't really tell whether "it" is done or not, because the original
author didn't write down *what* exactly needs to be done, which makes
the TODO kind of useless.
Since that information is lost forever, removing it arguably is
alright.
P.
>
> > NIT: Please don't top post, use interleaved style [2] instead.
>
> Sorry, coffee didn't kick in yet.
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