Re: [PATCH v6 14/25] drm/i915: Manually unwind after a failed request allocation

Chris Wilson
2016-04-27T11:00:10Z

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 01:48:01PM +0300, Joonas Lahtinen wrote:
> The names of these two _extras functions with the added functionality
> do not make sense.

They never did. The original intent here was to call engine->pin_request
that would acquire the context and prepare the ringbuf for writing into it.

Eventually they will do so again.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre