Re: [PATCH RFC v1 00/52] drm/crtc: Rename struct drm_crtc::dev to drm_dev

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On 12.07.2023 13:07, Julia Lawall wrote:

On Wed, 12 Jul 2023, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 12:46:33PM +0200, Christian König wrote:
Am 12.07.23 um 11:46 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
Hello,

while I debugged an issue in the imx-lcdc driver I was constantly
irritated about struct drm_device pointer variables being named "dev"
because with that name I usually expect a struct device pointer.

I think there is a big benefit when these are all renamed to "drm_dev".
I have no strong preference here though, so "drmdev" or "drm" are fine
for me, too. Let the bikesheding begin!

Some statistics:

$ git grep -ohE 'struct drm_device *\* *[^ (),;]*' v6.5-rc1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
        1 struct drm_device *adev_to_drm
        1 struct drm_device *drm_
        1 struct drm_device          *drm_dev
        1 struct drm_device        *drm_dev
        1 struct drm_device *pdev
        1 struct drm_device *rdev
        1 struct drm_device *vdev
        2 struct drm_device *dcss_drv_dev_to_drm
        2 struct drm_device **ddev
        2 struct drm_device *drm_dev_alloc
        2 struct drm_device *mock
        2 struct drm_device *p_ddev
        5 struct drm_device *device
        9 struct drm_device * dev
       25 struct drm_device *d
       95 struct drm_device *
      216 struct drm_device *ddev
      234 struct drm_device *drm_dev
      611 struct drm_device *drm
     4190 struct drm_device *dev

This series starts with renaming struct drm_crtc::dev to drm_dev. If
it's not only me and others like the result of this effort it should be
followed up by adapting the other structs and the individual usages in
the different drivers.

To make this series a bit easier handleable, I first added an alias for
drm_crtc::dev, then converted the drivers one after another and the last
patch drops the "dev" name. This has the advantage of being easier to
review, and if I should have missed an instance only the last patch must
be dropped/reverted. Also this series might conflict with other patches,
in this case the remaining patches can still go in (apart from the last
one of course). Maybe it also makes sense to delay applying the last
patch by one development cycle?
When you automatically generate the patch (with cocci for example) I usually
prefer a single patch instead.
Maybe I'm too stupid, but only parts of this patch were created by
coccinelle. I failed to convert code like

-       spin_lock_irq(&crtc->dev->event_lock);
+       spin_lock_irq(&crtc->drm_dev->event_lock);

Added Julia to Cc, maybe she has a hint?!
A priori, I see no reason why the rule below should not apply to the above
code.  Is there a parsing problem in the containing function?  You can run

spatch --parse-c file.c

If there is a paring problem, please let me know and i will try to fix it
so the while thing can be done automatically.

I guess some clever macros can fool spatch, at least I observe such things in i915 which often uses custom iterators.

Regards
Andrzej


julia

(Up to now it's only

@@
struct drm_crtc *crtc;
@@
-crtc->dev
+crtc->drm_dev

)

Background is that this makes merge conflicts easier to handle and detect.
Really? Each file (apart from include/drm/drm_crtc.h) is only touched
once. So unless I'm missing something you don't get less or easier
conflicts by doing it all in a single patch. But you gain the freedom to
drop a patch for one driver without having to drop the rest with it. So
I still like the split version better, but I'm open to a more verbose
reasoning from your side.

When you have multiple patches and a merge conflict because of some added
lines using the old field the build breaks only on the last patch which
removes the old field.
Then you can revert/drop the last patch without having to respin the
whole single patch and thus caring for still more conflicts that arise
until the new version is sent.

Best regards
Uwe

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