[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 00/22] .rodata diet

Jani Nikula jani.nikula at linux.intel.com
Wed Oct 5 13:01:20 UTC 2016


On Wed, 05 Oct 2016, Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin at ursulin.net> wrote:
> Dynamic typing in __I915__ (INTEL_INFO) has and unfortuante consequence that
> for every time it is called under a WARN it generates a very verbose string
> placed into the appropriate .rodata section.

AFAIK the idea all along was to use this "dynamic typing" for a
transition period. I'm in favor of moving towards only accepting
dev_priv. I'm a bit hesitant to make the change in one go, though.

BR,
Jani.

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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center


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