Re: [PATCH] simplefb: add support for a8b8g8r8 pixel format

[Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>]

On 06/06/2013 02:12 AM, Alex Courbot wrote:
> On 06/06/2013 04:59 PM, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
>>
>> On Jun 6, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>

No commit description? It'd be useful to at least justify this by
mentioning that some platform will actually use this...

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>>> static struct simplefb_format simplefb_formats[] = {
>>>     { "r5g6b5", 16, {11, 5}, {5, 6}, {0, 5}, {0, 0} },
>>> +    { "a8b8g8r8", 32, {0, 8}, {8, 8}, {16, 8}, {31, 8} },
>>
>> why don't you parse the string?
>>
>> so you will a real generic bindings
> 
> Tried that already, got NACKed: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/27/330
> 
> The list of modes of this driver should not grow too big. Even in terms
> of footprint I'd say the list should remain smaller than the parsing code.
> 
> What we can discuss though is whether we want to keep this a8b8g8r8
> syntax or switch to something more standard, say "rgba8888".

I would prefer to keep the syntax of the new formats consistent, so that
if we ever do add format-parsing code rather than table-based lookup,
all the existing formats will continue to work unchanged, without any
kind of fallback lookup table.