Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/i915: rename 'ring' where it refers to an engine or engine_id

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On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 06:16:06PM +0100, Dave Gordon wrote:
> 'ring' is an old deprecated term for a GPU engine. Chris Wilson wants to
> use the name for what is currently known as an intel_ringbuffer, but it
> will be dreadfully confusing if some rings are ringbuffers but other
> rings are still engines. So this patch changes the names of a bunch of
> parameters called 'ring' to either 'engine' or 'engine_id' according to
> what they actually are.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Gordon <david.s.gordon@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
-Chris

-- 
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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