[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 04/12] drm/i915: introduce is_active/activate/deactivate to the FBC terminology

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 05:53:36PM -0200, Paulo Zanoni wrote:
> The long term goal is to have enable/disable as the higher level
> functions and activate/deactivate as the lower level functions, just
> like we do for PSR and for the CRTC. This way, we'll run enable and
> disable once per modeset, while update, activate and deactivate will
> be run many times. With this, we can move the checks and code that
> need to run only once per modeset to enable(), making the code simpler
> and possibly a little faster.
> 
> This patch is just the first step on the conversion: it starts by
> converting the current low level functions from enable/disable to
> activate/deactivate. This patch by itself has no benefits other than
> making review and rebase easier. Please see the next patches for more
> details on the conversion.
> 
> v2:
>   - Rebase.
>   - Improve commit message (Chris).
> v3: Rebase after changing the patch order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni at intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre