[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] gallium/winsys/kms: Move display target handle lookup to separate function (v2)

Jordan Justen jordan.l.justen at intel.com
Thu Aug 11 23:03:49 UTC 2016


On 2016-08-08 01:55:18, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>    On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 2:37 AM, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com>
>    wrote:
> 
>      On 2016-08-02 03:46:27, Tomasz Figa wrote:
>      > +kms_sw_displaytarget_lookup(struct kms_sw_winsys *kms_sw,
>      > +                            unsigned int kms_handle)
> 
>      I don't think the 'lookup' name is appropriate, since it has the
>      ref-count side effect. Instead of 'lookup', how about import, or
>      find_and_import or something similar?
> 
>    How about "get_by_handle"? IMHO "import" is kind of confusing, because the
>    function doesn't end up creating any new objects, but instead just looks
>    through already known ones.

How about find_and_ref?

>    "Get" seems to be a reasonably common word for
>    getting a reference on an object (together with "put" for dropping the
>    reference).


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