[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 06/50] drm/i915: s/intel_ring_buffer/intel_engine

Damien Lespiau damien.lespiau at intel.com
Wed May 14 15:26:20 CEST 2014


On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 03:28:27PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 01:08:36PM +0100, oscar.mateo at intel.com wrote:
> > From: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo at intel.com>
> > 
> > In the upcoming patches, we plan to break the correlation between
> > engines (a.k.a. rings) and ringbuffers, so it makes sense to
> > refactor the code and make the change obvious.
> > 
> > No functional changes.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oscar Mateo <oscar.mateo at intel.com>
> 
> If we rename stuff I'd vote for something close to Bspec language, like
> CS. So maybe intel_cs_engine?

Also, can we have such patches (and the like of "drm/i915:
for_each_ring") pushed early when everyone is happy with them, they
cause constant rebasing pain.

Thanks,

-- 
Damien



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