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

[Daniel Vetter]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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.

+1 on transitioning away from me too. I'll leave it up to the people
involved whether staging this is required or not. Fixing up the
fallout (in internal, in-flight patches or wherever) should at least
be simple.
-Daniel
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