[PATCH] drm/xe: Nuke xe's copy of intel_fbdev_fb.h

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Wed May 8 19:52:54 UTC 2024


On Tue, May 07, 2024 at 11:53:40AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 06 May 2024, Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> >
> > For some reason xe and i915 each have an identical (fortunately)
> > copy of intel_fbdev_fb.h. The xe copy actually only gets included
> > by xe's intel_fbdev_fb.c, and the i915 copy by everyone else,
> > include intel_fbdev.c which is the actual caller of the
> > functions declared in the header.
> >
> > This means the xe and i915 headers are free to define/declare
> > completely incompatible things and the build would still succeed
> > as long as the symbol names match.
> >
> > That is not a good thing, so let's nuke xe's copy of the header
> > so that everyone will use the same header, and be forced to
> > agree on the same API/ABI.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at intel.com>

Thanks.

I was going to push this to drm-xe-next, but I should actually
push it to drm-intel-next since I'll be massaging this stuff
there.

xe maintainers, ack for merging via drm-intel-next?

> 
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/xe/display/intel_fbdev_fb.h | 21 ---------------------
> >  1 file changed, 21 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 drivers/gpu/drm/xe/display/intel_fbdev_fb.h
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/display/intel_fbdev_fb.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/display/intel_fbdev_fb.h
> > deleted file mode 100644
> > index ea186772e0bb..000000000000
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/xe/display/intel_fbdev_fb.h
> > +++ /dev/null
> > @@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
> > -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT */
> > -/*
> > - * Copyright © 2023 Intel Corporation
> > - */
> > -
> > -#ifndef __INTEL_FBDEV_FB_H__
> > -#define __INTEL_FBDEV_FB_H__
> > -
> > -struct drm_fb_helper;
> > -struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size;
> > -struct drm_i915_gem_object;
> > -struct drm_i915_private;
> > -struct fb_info;
> > -struct i915_vma;
> > -
> > -struct drm_framebuffer *intel_fbdev_fb_alloc(struct drm_fb_helper *helper,
> > -			 struct drm_fb_helper_surface_size *sizes);
> > -int intel_fbdev_fb_fill_info(struct drm_i915_private *i915, struct fb_info *info,
> > -			      struct drm_i915_gem_object *obj, struct i915_vma *vma);
> > -
> > -#endif
> 
> -- 
> Jani Nikula, Intel

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel


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