Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm/amdgpu: Add SOC15 IP offset define file

[Tom St Denis <tom.stdenis-5C7GfCeVMHo@public.gmane.org>]

On 27/11/17 04:28 PM, Christian König wrote:
> Am 27.11.2017 um 21:56 schrieb Alex Deucher:
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Christian König
>> <christian.koenig@amd.com> wrote:
>>> Am 27.11.2017 um 21:01 schrieb Felix Kuehling:
>>>> On 2017-11-27 02:37 PM, Koenig, Christian wrote:
>>>>> And that is a clear NAK to this approach.
>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>
>>>> Do you have other objections than the style issues? If so, please 
>>>> explain.
>>>
>>> No, the technical aspect actually looks rather reasonable.
>>>
>>>> Please clarify, why this file needs to be treated differently from 
>>>> other
>>>> files under include/asic_reg? All those files are auto-generated by HW
>>>> teams. Fixing the coding style adds no value and makes future updates
>>>> more complicated.
>>>
>>> We already got complains about that and most likely will need to fix the
>>> rest as well.
>> I'd like to stay as close as possible to the headers formats we are
>> using internally across teams for consistency.
> 
> To be honest I strongly disagree on that. The bad quality of the 
> internal AMD headers is the reason we had to basically have the VMHUB 
> code for Vega10 twice for example.

At the very least the globals we use per ip block should be version 
specific.  That way if you cscope/ctags around you can find the actual 
references and not collisions.

Tom
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