Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Small display interrupt handlers tidy

Chris Wilson
2016-05-09T08:21:29Z

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:05:06AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Not sure about intel_display because that's an ever-growing dumping ground
> and with atomic still in-flight I definitely don't want to upset this.
> There's been various plans to split it up a bit (and document while at
> it). Maybe we could throw in refactorings likes this too.

The other problem with intel_display is that it is more interwined with
the drm core, so we do not such a predominant pointer class. Inside GEM,
the last remaining bastion is dev->struct_mutex, and we can even move
that to i915->global_mutex and start whittling away at it now.
-Chirs

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre