From: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
To: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
airlied@linux.ie, daniel@ffwll.ch, deller@gmx.de,
maxime@cerno.tech, sam@ravnborg.org, msuchanek@suse.de,
mpe@ellerman.id.au, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
geert@linux-m68k.org, mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] drm/simpledrm: Inline device-init helpers
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 11:30:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <123b9590-8a5d-70b3-b27b-59e71d4cf6da@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <314820f8-3609-9182-97eb-ee30e240d114@suse.de>
Hello Thomas,
On 7/27/22 09:50, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 25.07.22 um 17:01 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
>> Hello Thomas,
>>
>> On 7/20/22 16:27, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>>> Inline the helpers for initializing the hardware FB, the memory
>>> management and the modesetting into the device-creation function.
>>> No functional changes.
>>>
>>
>> Could you please elaborate in the commit message why this change is
>> desirable? Without this additional context, this feels like going
>> backwards, since you are dropping few helpers that have quite self
>> contained code and making simpledrm_device_create() much larger.
>
> To clarify: I want to make the init code more easy to follow. These old
> init functions still had to be called in the right order as each > possibly depends on settings from the others. It also feels like it's
> easier to extract common code for ofdrm. And the pipeline is static, so
> it doesn't require complex chains of helper calls. Having everything in
> one helper seems beneficial. (It's a trade-off, I know.)
>
I see. That makes sense to me. Could you please add the explanation to
the commit message ? And feel free to add my Acked-by for this one too.
--
Best regards,
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-27 9:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-20 14:27 [PATCH v2 00/10] drm: Add driver for PowerPC OF displays Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 01/10] drm/simpledrm: Remove mem field from device structure Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-25 14:48 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 02/10] drm/simpledrm: Inline device-init helpers Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-25 15:01 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-27 7:50 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-27 9:30 ` Javier Martinez Canillas [this message]
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 03/10] drm/simpledrm: Remove pdev field from device structure Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-25 15:02 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 04/10] drm/simpledrm: Compute framebuffer stride if not set Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-21 14:46 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-07-25 15:13 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-27 7:53 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-08-11 17:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2022-08-11 18:26 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-08-11 18:27 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-09-06 19:16 ` Daniel Vetter
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 05/10] drm/simpledrm: Convert to atomic helpers Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-25 15:46 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-27 7:58 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 06/10] drm/simpledrm: Move some functionality into fwfb helper library Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-25 16:23 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-27 8:24 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-27 9:39 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 07/10] drm/ofdrm: Add ofdrm for Open Firmware framebuffers Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-26 13:17 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-09-21 11:41 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 08/10] drm/ofdrm: Add CRTC state Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-26 13:36 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-09-21 11:45 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 09/10] drm/ofdrm: Add per-model device function Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-26 13:38 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-26 14:40 ` Michal Suchánek
2022-07-26 19:22 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-27 8:33 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-08-05 0:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2022-09-21 12:37 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-20 14:27 ` [PATCH v2 10/10] drm/ofdrm: Support color management Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-26 13:49 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-07-27 8:41 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-27 9:45 ` Javier Martinez Canillas
2022-08-05 0:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2022-08-05 0:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2022-09-21 12:55 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-09-21 16:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-09-22 6:42 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-09-22 7:28 ` Maxime Ripard
2022-09-22 8:06 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2022-07-28 11:13 ` [PATCH v2 00/10] drm: Add driver for PowerPC OF displays Michael Ellerman
2022-07-28 11:31 ` Michal Suchánek
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