[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: Stop using crtc->index as the pipe

[Souza, Jose]

On Tue, 2021-04-27 at 10:51 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021, Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 12:07:21AM +0000, Souza, Jose wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2021-04-26 at 21:56 +0300, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> > > > 
> > > > The pipe crc code slipped theough the net when we tried to
> > > > eliminate all crtc->index==pipe abuses. Remedy that.
> > > > 
> > > > And while at it get rid of those nasty intel_crtc+drm_crtc
> > > > pointer aliases.
> > > 
> > > intel_crtc is broadly used,
> > 
> > Not anymore. We've cleaned up almost all of it. Looks like only ~40 left
> > vs. ~600 the other name. Probably a good time to clean up the rest
> > finally.
> 
> Ack.
> 
> > 
> > > also we have the same for other structs like intel_connector, in my option that is better than _crtc x crtc.
> > 
> > The _crtc is explicitly ugly to make sure people leave it well
> > alone. Otherwise we can never get rid of these horrible aliasing
> > pointers. It should only make an appearance in core/helper vfuncs
> > and such. At some point I was even pondering some kind of macro
> > magic to create semi-automatic wrappers so that we could always
> > just use the intel_ types in our vfunc implementations.
> > 
> > intel_crtc we've cleaned up the most I think, intel_encoder a bit less
> > perhaps, and intel_connector not really at all. Hence you see a lot more
> > of intel_connector floating around. We also don't usually use the intel_
> > types for connector states. Mainly because most of the time you don't
> > need anyting from there.
> 
> Ack.

Fair enough then

Reviewed-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza at intel.com>

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> BR,
> Jani.
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