Am 22.11.2017 um 09:42 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> On 2017-11-21 07:38 PM, Christian König wrote:
>> Am 21.11.2017 um 18:29 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
>>> From: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>
>>>
>>> This matches the corresponding UAPI fields. Treating the ring index as
>>> signed could result in accessing random unrelated memory if the MSB was
>>> set.
>>>
>>> Fixes: effd924d2f3b ("drm/amdgpu: untie user ring ids from kernel ring
>>> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ids v6")
>>> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
>>> Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>
>> Subject line is off, [...]
> I assume you're referring to the prefix. Well, I'm actually trying to
> set a trend there. :) Since there's no other amdgpu driver, the drm/ is
> redundant. In the specific case of this patch, adding it would make the
> shortlog too long, and IME it's quite often the case that those four
> character cells could be put to better use than for the redundant prefix.
Yeah, making the prefix shorter is one thing I have thought about as well.
But currently we use "drm/amdgpu:" for the kernel and "amdgpu:" for
libdrm and I actually would like to keep that.
Christian.
