[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/display: Add forward declaration for struct seq_file

[Jani Nikula]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2023, "Borah, Chaitanya Kumar" <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com> wrote:
> Hello Jani,
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
>> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2023 8:05 PM
>> To: Borah, Chaitanya Kumar <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com>; intel-
>> gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>> Cc: Shankar, Uma <uma.shankar at intel.com>; Murthy, Arun R
>> <arun.r.murthy at intel.com>
>> Subject: RE: [PATCH] drm/i915/display: Add forward declaration for struct
>> seq_file
>> 
>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, "Borah, Chaitanya Kumar"
>> <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Jani,
>> >
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
>> >> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2023 5:37 PM
>> >> To: Borah, Chaitanya Kumar <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com>; intel-
>> >> gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
>> >> Cc: Shankar, Uma <uma.shankar at intel.com>; Murthy, Arun R
>> >> <arun.r.murthy at intel.com>; Borah, Chaitanya Kumar
>> >> <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com>
>> >> Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915/display: Add forward declaration for
>> >> struct seq_file
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, 26 Jun 2023, Chaitanya Kumar Borah
>> >> <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com> wrote:
>> >> > With change [1], visibility of struct seq_file is lost in
>> >> > intel_display_power.h leading to build errors. Add forward
>> >> > declaration.
>> >> >
>> >> > [1] ef104443bffa ("procfs: consolidate arch_report_meminfo
>> >> > declaration")
>> >> >
>> >> > v2: Use forward declaration instead of headerfile inclusion [Jani]
>> >> >
>> >> > Signed-off-by: Chaitanya Kumar Borah
>> >> > <chaitanya.kumar.borah at intel.com>
>> >>
>> >> Hey, thanks for the patch, this would've been fine, but looks like
>> >> Imre just pushed commit f4fab137dd2b ("drm/i915: Add missing forward
>> >> declarations/includes to display power headers") which adds the
>> >> forward declaration among other things.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry for the trouble.
>> >>
>> >
>> > No problem, Thank you for the info.
>> >
>> > Sorry for my ignorance but will this patch eventually find its way to
>> > linux-next or do we need to do something special here?
>> 
>> It'll show up in linux-next once -rc1 is out. But I'm not sure that's the
>> *question* you want the answer to, really.
>> 
>
> If I understand correctly, the patch will get merged with linux-next
> along with the release of 6.4-rc1.
>
> The pertinent question is when will linux-next builds be fixed?
> We are missing out on regression tracking because of the build failures.

I've asked Tvrtko to pick this up to drm-intel-next-fixes, which should
show up in linux-next when it's next generated (it's daily).

BR,
Jani.

>
> Regards
>
> Chaitanya
>
>> BR,
>> Jani.
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Chaitanya
>> >
>> >> BR,
>> >> Jani.
>> >>
>> >> > ---
>> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_power.h | 1 +
>> >> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >> >
>> >> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_power.h
>> >> > b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_power.h
>> >> > index be1a87bde0c9..0ba268e566b0 100644
>> >> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_power.h
>> >> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_display_power.h
>> >> > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ enum port;
>> >> >  struct drm_i915_private;
>> >> >  struct i915_power_well;
>> >> >  struct intel_encoder;
>> >> > +struct seq_file;
>> >> >
>> >> >  /*
>> >> >   * Keep the pipe, transcoder, port (DDI_LANES,DDI_IO,AUX) domain
>> >> > instances
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center
>> 
>> --
>> Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center

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