From: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
To: Matt Roper <matthew.d.roper@intel.com>
Cc: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] drm/i915: Split up modeset state checker.
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 09:33:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FA2FB9.8050306@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160325165930.GL20526@intel.com>
Op 25-03-16 om 17:59 schreef Matt Roper:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote:
>> Right now the state checker assumes that the global state is fixed,
>> with support for the atomic ioctl not all state will be locked any more,
>> so the state checker has to check only what's part of the state.
>>
>> This is done by first splitting up the state checker in one part that
>> checks all disabled connectors/encoders and global state, and then
>> split again to run for each crtc separately.
> While you're touching these functions, maybe it would be a good time to
> rename them as well? The 'check' in their names can mislead people into
> thinking that they're somehow related to the atomic 'check' phase, even
> though they're actually something we do after the commit is complete.
>
> Renaming these with s/check/confirm/ or s/check/verify/ might make it a
> little bit easier to understand what their purpose is and avoid
> confusion.
I'm ok with s/check/verify/ -- anything wrong with the patches itself?
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-23 13:58 [PATCH 0/2] drm/i915: Split up modeset state checker Maarten Lankhorst
2016-03-23 13:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Make modeset state checker take crtc as argument Maarten Lankhorst
2016-04-07 23:22 ` Matt Roper
2016-03-23 13:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] drm/i915: Move modeset state checker calls Maarten Lankhorst
2016-04-07 23:23 ` Matt Roper
2016-04-08 9:38 ` Maarten Lankhorst
2016-03-25 16:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] drm/i915: Split up modeset state checker Matt Roper
2016-03-29 7:33 ` Maarten Lankhorst [this message]
2016-03-30 8:00 ` [PATCH 3/2] drm/i915: Rename hw state checker to hw state verifier Maarten Lankhorst
2016-03-30 11:26 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-04-07 23:24 ` Matt Roper
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