[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 14/26] drm/i915: Complete page table structures

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Sat Mar 22 22:14:14 CET 2014


On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 01:10:47PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 09:09:45AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:48:46PM -0700, Ben Widawsky wrote:
> > > Move the remaining members over to the new page table structures.
> > > 
> > > This can be squashed with the previous commit if desire. The reasoning
> > > is the same as that patch. I simply felt it is easier to review if split.
> > 
> > I'm not liking the shorter names much. Is there precedence elsewhere
> > (e.g. daddr)?
> > -Chris
> > 
> 
> I'm not particularly attached to "daddr." It was fun to say in my head.
> A lot of code does use "daddr" but it seems to vary between "dma",
> "device", data", "destination" Not exactly precedence.
> 
> Initially I had the prefix p[td]_daddr, but I thought you might complain
> about it because it's implicit. dma_addr seemed kinda redundant to me.
> 
> Recommendation?

I am still attached to dma_addr, as it seems to be common (or
dma_address) for dma-mapped addresses. But by the end, I had stopped
caring, so

Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>

I'll come back to this if nobody has a better idea and see if I can make
some sensisble suggestions, or just give in completely.
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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