[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/6] drm: Renaming DP training vswing/pre-emph defines

[Jindal, Sonika]

On 8/5/2014 6:00 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Jindal, Sonika <sonika.jindal at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/5/2014 4:45 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 04:38:17PM +0530, sonika.jindal at intel.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Sonika Jindal <sonika.jindal at intel.com>
>>>>
>>>> Renaming defines to have levels instead of nominal values.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sonika Jindal <sonika.jindal at intel.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> You can't split up patches like this since this will break compilation.
>>> For larger stuff (and imo this is right above the cutoff) you first need
>>> to add the new functions/defines, then convert everyone over. And only
>>> when all the drivers are converted can we apply the patch to remove the
>>> old functions/defines.
>>> -Daniel
>>>
>> Got your concern. So, I will repost the first patch keeping both the defines
>> and an additional last patch for removing the extra defines.
>
> Yeah. Btw for the actual replacement I highly recommend to do it with
> a semantic patch and cocci. There's unfortunately not a hole lot of
> good documentation around, but we recently started and it helps a lot
> with regenerating patches (e.g. for newly merged drm drivers) and
> avoiding mistakes for manual conversions. If we do a cocci patch we
> put it into the commit message, grep for @@.
> -Daniel
>
I need to find out about cocci. Can we go ahead with this patch series only?
-Sonika