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From: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
To: Intel GFX <intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org>
Cc: Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net>, Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/i915: Provide a modparam to disable firmware loading
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:27:25 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87inzkr3wy.fsf@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1460566637-19638-1-git-send-email-ben@bwidawsk.net>

On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Ben Widawsky <ben@bwidawsk.net> wrote:
> +module_param_named_unsafe(disable_firmware_loading, i915.disable_firmware_loading, uint, 0400);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_firmware_loading,
> +	"Bypass loading of firmware based on mask. This overrides all other firmware module parameters. (0:all firmwares enabled (default), 1<<0:disable GuC, 1<<1:disable DMC");

I'd like all parameters like this to read "enable", defaulting to
enabled or disabled, possibly with platform specific defaults.

I know there's the underlying assumption that firmware loading is
enabled by default, therefore disabling is a special case, so you call
this disable. But we've already got enable_whatnot, with all kinds of
defaults. The disable_whatnot ones are confusing.

I can easily imagine adding platform specific defaults to
enable_firmware_loading, particularly during platform enabling.

BR,
Jani.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-14  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-13 16:57 [PATCH] drm/i915: Provide a modparam to disable firmware loading Ben Widawsky
2016-04-13 17:45 ` Dave Gordon
2016-04-13 17:48   ` Ben Widawsky
2016-04-14  8:27 ` Jani Nikula [this message]
2016-04-14 15:07   ` Ben Widawsky
2016-04-14 11:53 ` ✗ Fi.CI.BAT: warning for " Patchwork

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