From: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To: "Stéphane Marchesin" <marcheu@chromium.org>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>,
"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
intel-gfx <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Michael Davidson <md@google.com>,
Grant Grundler <grundler@chromium.org>,
Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@google.com>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH RESEND] drm/i915: Fix pipe/transcoder enum mismatches
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:42:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170713174232.GK12629@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADMs+9aVfOx3WegtxqmyHF3MxANNeC8Ot3dkNN8uQhYLi5Y_Fg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 09:23:11AM -0700, Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 3:13 AM, Ville Syrjälä
> <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 07:28:14PM -0700, Stéphane Marchesin wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Ville Syrjälä
> >> <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 10:26:36AM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> >> > > El Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:56:05PM -0700 Matthias Kaehlcke ha dit:
> >> > >
> >> > > > In several instances the driver passes an 'enum pipe' value to a
> >> > > > function expecting an 'enum transcoder' and viceversa. Since PIPE_x and
> >> > > > TRANSCODER_x have the same values this doesn't cause functional
> >> > > > problems. Still it is incorrect and causes clang to generate warnings
> >> > > > like this:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:1844:34: warning: implicit
> >> > > > conversion from enumeration type 'enum transcoder' to different
> >> > > > enumeration type 'enum pipe' [-Wenum-conversion]
> >> > > > assert_fdi_rx_enabled(dev_priv, TRANSCODER_A);
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Change the code to pass values of the type expected by the callee.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
> >> > > > ---
> >> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 4 ++--
> >> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 6 ++++--
> >> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hdmi.c | 6 ++++--
> >> > > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c | 6 ++++--
> >> > > > 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >> > >
> >> > > Ping, any comments on this patch?
> >> >
> >> > I'm not convinced the patch is making things any better really. To
> >> > fix this really properly, I think we'd need to introduce a new enum
> >> > pch_transcoder and thus avoid the confusion of which type of
> >> > transcoder we're talking about. Currently most places expect an
> >> > enum pipe when dealing with PCH transcoders, and enum transcoder
> >> > when dealing with CPU transcoders. But there are some exceptions
> >> > of course.
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't follow -- these functions take an enum transcoder; what's
> >> wrong about passing what they expect? It seems like what you are
> >> asking for has nothing to do with the warning here...
> >
> > There's a warning? I don't get any.
>
> Yup, clang generates a warning.
>
> >
> > Anyways, I just don't see much point in blindly changing the types
> > because it doesn't actually solve the underlying confusion for human
> > readers. It might even make it worse, not sure.
>
> The function expects type A, you pass type B, how can that ever be the
> right thing to do?
Because maybe the function should be taking in type B instead.
--
Ville Syrjälä
Intel OTC
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-13 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-20 21:56 [PATCH RESEND] drm/i915: Fix pipe/transcoder enum mismatches Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-05 17:26 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-05 17:40 ` [Intel-gfx] " Ville Syrjälä
2017-05-05 19:12 ` Grant Grundler
2017-05-05 20:08 ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-05-05 20:29 ` Grant Grundler
2017-05-05 21:37 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2017-05-08 7:21 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-05-08 8:17 ` Jani Nikula
2017-07-13 2:28 ` Stéphane Marchesin
2017-07-13 10:13 ` Ville Syrjälä
2017-07-13 12:24 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-07-13 16:23 ` Stéphane Marchesin
2017-07-13 17:42 ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2017-07-13 19:58 ` Stéphane Marchesin
2017-07-14 9:11 ` Jani Nikula
2017-07-14 17:32 ` Grant Grundler
2017-07-14 21:35 ` Daniel Vetter
2017-07-14 22:43 ` Grant Grundler
2017-07-14 23:38 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
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