On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 15:24 +0300, Pekka Paalanen wrote: > On Fri, 03 Apr 2020 10:15:21 +0000 Simon Ser <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Additionally, I've heard Pekka saying that it would be nice to have constants > > for property names in the UAPI headers. Indeed, this would prevent > > hard-to-debug typo issues. I have a very good example of such a typo issue that > > took literally hours to debug, with X11 atoms which also use free-form strings > > like KMS properties [3]. > > > > If we have constants for property names in UAPI headers, it wouldn't be a big > > hurdle to also have constants for enum values alongside. > > To clarify, the property names would be of the form > > #define DRM_KMS_PROPERTY_KERBLAH "KerBlah" > > while enum values would be integers, i.e. the raw values. > > Daniel Stone did have a good counter-argument to defining property > names: userspace would be full of > > #ifndef DRM_KMS_PROPERTY_KERBLAH > #define DRM_KMS_PROPERTY_KERBLAH "KerBleh" > #endif > > anyway as long as they cannot rely on the headers to be recent enough. > (The typo is intentional.) Why not put this in some external registry and regularly sync it into drm-next? This seems like an xorgproto kind of problem to me. - ajax _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
