[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/6] drm: Give crtcs and planes actual names

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 06:52:20PM +0200, ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com wrote:
>> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
>> 
>> I got sick and tired of staring at the line noise produced by drm.debug=0x1e,
>> so I decided to give the crtcs and planes human readable names. Each driver
>> can give whatever names it wants, and for i915 I gave something that makes
>> some sense w.r.t. to the spec.
>> 
>> The only magic gotcha here is that if the driver dynamically allocates the
>> name, it must be careful around drm_{crtc,plane}_cleanup() cause those
>> guys just memset the entire structure to 0. I didn't want to put the kfree()
>> into the cleanup functions to avoid having to kstrdup("") in the fallback
>> case or forcing drivers to always use a dynamic allocation.
>
> I avoiding the kstrdup("") is a bit a hack, especially since we could put
> somethinig useful in there like "idx-%i", drm_plane_index(). The index is
> used by a bunch of things (both internally and in ioctl structs), so
> pretty handy.

Find the latest version of the series first. ;)

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center