[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/8] drm/i915: Give crtcs and planes actual names (v5)

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 08:59:18PM +0300, ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> 
> This is the remainder (the i915 specific parts) of my earlier
> {crtc,plane}->name series [1]. I think at least one i915 specific patch
> was already merged, and I think I added one or two new ones at some
> point.

Making the message more informative is always appreciated, and I
couldn't spot anything blatantly wrong,

Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
 
> I'm not so sure about the last patch. It was somewhat useful in narrowing
> down some underrun locations and whatnot for me, but normally it might
> be just noise. So I'm happy to keep it in my private stash for a rainy day
> if people are fed up with dmesg spam.

If you have a compelling usecase, it's not the worst thing we've ever
done. If there's no rush, we should try to leverage ftrace, or something
similar, rather than roll our own partial solution.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre