Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] drm: Rename drm_atomic_state

Jani Nikula
2026-04-01T12:41:52Z

On Tue, 31 Mar 2026, Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> wrote:
> We've been discussing for a long time about renaming drm_atomic_state
> to a better suited name, since the current one is a source of confusion
> and bugs.
>
> To minimize the impact, this should probably go through drm-next
> directly.
>
> Let me know what you think,

I don't really have strong opinions on this one, except I agree this
should go directly through drm-next before the merge window so everyone
can backmerge it. Otherwise it's going to be a conflicts galore.

IMO drivers can do the variable renames afterwards at leisure.

For the i915 parts,

Acked-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>

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