Re: [git pull] drm for 6.15-rc1

[Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>]

On Mon, 31 Mar 2025, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 03:17, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>> I suggest a Kconfig knob to truly make this opt-in, only for developers
>> who actually want it.
>
> So honestly, the thing I *really* hated was the horrendous naming.
>
> I live in auto-complete. I basically never type out file-names, and I
> replace keyboards every once in a while because my TAB key has worn
> down (not really, but you get the idea).
>
> And *if* this feature is useful - and while I disagree about the whole
> "header files have to be self-sufficient" as a general rule, I can see
> it being useful for uapi headers - then dammit, the file naming needs
> to *DIE*. It needs to be taken out behind the shed and shot in the
> head, because it messes with TAB-completion.
>
> Having "this has been checked" turds that live in the same name-space
> as real files is wrong.
>
> In the kernel, we often hide them explicitly (ie using the dot prefix
> to make them hide, but also to make them not mess with auto-complete).
> That's an option. But some people hate the hiding, and if that's an
> issue, just put it all in a different subdirectory entirely.
>
> Yes, I realize that you guys may live in the whole "different
> subdirectory entirely" world of doing the whole build in a separate
> build directory, and might say "why are you working in the same tree
> as the generated files in the first place if auto-complete is so
> important to you".
>
> And to that I say "because I equally often look at the generated
> files". When they make *sense* to look at, not when they are
> auto-generated makefile checking crap.
>
> So please. This feature needs to be done completely differently.

I've polished, or, more accurately, hidden the disgusting turds [1]. I
hope this is an acceptable approach.

I've never claimed this feature is universally useful, certainly not for
all of include/linux, but I think it has been more helpful than not in
i915 and xe drivers. And now hopefully drm more widely. I wish kbuild
had support for it in a way that drivers could opt-in *if* they wanted
it, but without copy-pasting the boilerplate.


BR,
Jani.


[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401121830.21696-1-jani.nikula@intel.com


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