[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 3/4] drm/i915: Rename local struct intel_ringbuffer variables

[Chris Wilson]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 04:06:14PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> On 16/03/16 16:00, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 03:40:54PM +0000, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> >>From: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> >>
> >>Majority of the code calls these ringbuf so fix up a few
> >>places which use something else to be consistent.
> >
> >I absolutely detest ringbuf as a name. The point of calling the engine
> >the engine was that we could call the ring state the ring.
> 
> :) I knew it. It is easily doable but it would be a somewhat bigger
> and again disruptive patch. Maybe someone else should do it so I am
> not the only one causing rebasing pain:

It's because it was the easier route that lead us into the current
miasma.

It just takes a few more steps to get ringbufs to be rings. I don't have
them as coccinelle patches, but in a few hours I'll see what they look
like after rebasing.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre