2022-11-30 09:31:45

by Javier Martinez Canillas

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 08/17] drm/tests: helpers: Allow for a custom device struct to be allocated

On 11/28/22 15:53, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The current helper to allocate a DRM device doesn't allow for any
> subclassing by drivers, which is going to be troublesome as we work on
> getting some kunit testing on atomic modesetting code.
>
> Let's use a similar pattern to the other allocation helpers by providing
> the structure size and offset as arguments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <[email protected]>
> ---

[...]

> -EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_kunit_helper_alloc_drm_device);
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__drm_kunit_helper_alloc_drm_device);
>

I'm not sure if I would add a __ prefix to exported symbols, but I see that
this is a convention in the DRM subsystem so I'm OK with it.

Another thing that came to mind is if we want to use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
instead for the DRM KUnit helpers. But that's not related to this series.

Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Core Platforms
Red Hat