Re: [PATCH 0/6] drm: Give crtcs and planes actual names

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On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 06:52:20PM +0200, ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> I got sick and tired of staring at the line noise produced by drm.debug=0x1e,
> so I decided to give the crtcs and planes human readable names. Each driver
> can give whatever names it wants, and for i915 I gave something that makes
> some sense w.r.t. to the spec.
> 
> The only magic gotcha here is that if the driver dynamically allocates the
> name, it must be careful around drm_{crtc,plane}_cleanup() cause those
> guys just memset the entire structure to 0. I didn't want to put the kfree()
> into the cleanup functions to avoid having to kstrdup("") in the fallback
> case or forcing drivers to always use a dynamic allocation.

I avoiding the kstrdup("") is a bit a hack, especially since we could put
somethinig useful in there like "idx-%i", drm_plane_index(). The index is
used by a bunch of things (both internally and in ioctl structs), so
pretty handy.
-Daniel

> 
> Ville Syrjälä (6):
>   drm: Add crtc->name and use it in debug messages
>   drm: Add plane->name and use it in debug prints
>   drm/i915: Use crtc->name in debug messages
>   drm/i915: Use plane->name in debug prints
>   drm/i915: Set crtc->name to "pipe A", "pipe B", etc.
>   drm/i915: Give meaningful names to all the planes
> 
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic.c         |  53 ++++++++-------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c  |  60 +++++++++--------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c           |  11 ++-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c    |  24 ++++---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 127 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_fbdev.c   |   5 +-
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sprite.c  |  14 ++++
>  include/drm/drm_crtc.h               |   4 ++
>  8 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 113 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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