From: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
To: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>,
"Kenneth Feng" <kenneth.feng@amd.com>,
"Alex Deucher" <alexander.deucher@amd.com>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Xinhui Pan" <Xinhui.Pan@amd.com>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
amd-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/amd/pm: Avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:14:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202601151612.79AAC91869@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADnq5_Mqa2HWWKrAYTAfjdvEQTMUeB1MBnhtRxJZjXLWcz1nmg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 08:57:58AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM Gustavo A. R. Silva
> <gustavo@embeddedor.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > On 22/04/25 23:58, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 16/04/25 09:04, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > >> Can you resend, I can't seem to find the original emails.
> > >> Additionally, all of the NISLANDS structures are unused in amdgpu, so
> > >> those could be removed.
> >
> > I'm taking a look at this, and it seems that those NISLANDS structs are actually
> > needed in amdgpu code. For instance, `struct si_power_info` contains a member
> > of the type of `struct ni_power_info`, and this latter struct contains a
> > member of the type of `NISLANDS_SMC_STATETABLE`, thus `NISLANDS_SMC_SWSTATE`
> > and `NISLANDS_SMC_HW_PERFORMANCE_LEVEL` are needed, and so on.
> >
> > So, it seems that all those structs should stay. What do you think?
>
> They are not used for programming the hardware. They were just
> inherited from radeon. All of the NI SMC stuff can be dropped.
(Looking through patchwork...)
It's not obvious for me how to drop that stuff. It seems pretty
integral? What's wanted here?
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-16 0:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-14 8:18 [PATCH][next] drm/amd/pm: Avoid multiple -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warnings Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-03-11 8:10 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-04-16 0:30 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-04-16 15:04 ` Alex Deucher
2025-04-22 14:58 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-08-13 5:12 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-08-13 12:57 ` Alex Deucher
2026-01-16 0:14 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2026-01-16 3:14 ` Alex Deucher
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