Re: [PATCH v8 1/6] drm/panic: Move drawing functions to drm_draw

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Tue, 03 Dec 2024, Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/12/2024 12:06, Jani Nikula wrote:
>> On Fri, 15 Nov 2024, Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Move the color conversions, blit and fill functions to drm_draw.c,
>>> so that they can be re-used by drm_log.
>>> drm_draw is internal to the drm subsystem, and shouldn't be used by
>>> gpu drivers.
>> 
>> I started looking at this in patch 2:
>> 
>>> +#include "../drm_draw.h"
>> 
>> I think we should avoid #includes with ../ like this.
>
> Sure, I've added it in v8, after the clients moved to drm/clients/, but 
> I didn't think much about it.
>
>> 
>> Either drm_draw.h belongs in include/drm, or maybe clients/Makefile
>> needs to add subdir-ccflags-y += -I$(src)/.. or something like that?
>> 
>> If it's supposed to be internal, I guess the latter, but then the
>> current convention is to have _internal.h suffix. All drm headers under
>> drivers/ have that.
>
> ok, I can rename drm_draw.h to drm_draw_internal.h, and add the include 
> in the Makefile.
>> 
>> Is this the first drm subsystem internal thing that's a separate module?
>> Should we use EXPORT_SYMBOL_NS() and MODULE_IMPORT_NS() to enforce it
>> being internal?
>
> It's not really a separate module, as it's built in the core drm module. 
> (the reason is that it's used by drm_panic too, which must be in the 
> core drm module).

Right, sorry, I got confused and looked at this the other way round.

drm_draw is part of drm.ko, drm log is part of drm_client_lib.ko, and
uses drm_draw, right?

So is drm_draw really internal if drm client uses it?

I don't really deeply care either way, but it bugs me when it's
somewhere in between. :)

Either include/drm/drm_draw.h or drivers/gpu/drm/drm_draw_internal.h,
the latter *possibly* with symbol namespace, but not a big deal.


BR,
Jani.


>
> I don't know much about symbol namespace, but I can add that if needed.
>
> Best regards,

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel