Re: [PATCH 24/39] drm: renesas: shmobile: Unify plane allocation

[Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>]

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 07:55:22PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 6:50 PM Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 11:21:36AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > Unify primary and overlay plane allocation:
> > >   - Enhance shmob_drm_plane_create() so it can be used to create the
> > >     primary plane, too,
> > >   - Move overlay plane creation next to primary plane creation.
> > >
> > > As overlay plane index zero now means the primary plane, this requires
> > > shifting all overlay plane indices by one.
> >
> > Do you use index zero to identify the primary plane just for
> > shmob_drm_plane_create(), or somewhere else too ? If it's just to create
> > the plane, you could instead pass the plane type to the function.
> 
> Index zero is just used for the creation.
> I guess this sort of goes together with my question below...
> 
> > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> > > ---
> > > Perhaps it would be better to not use dynamic allocation, but store
> > > "struct drm_plane primary" and "struct shmob_drm_plane planes[5]" in
> > > struct drm_shmob_device instead, like is done for the crtc and encoder?
> 
> ... as embedding separate primary and planes[] would also get rid of
> the need to adjust the plane indices when converting from logical to physical
> overlay plane indices.

Do they need to be embedded for that, or could you simple keep the index
as it is ?

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart