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From:   Ville =?iso-8859-1?Q?Syrj=E4l=E4?= <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vblank: Simplify drm_dev_has_vblank()
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On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 10:46:00PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 09:07:35AM -0700, Rob Clark wrote:
> > From: Rob Clark <robdclark@chromium.org>
> > 
> > What does vblank have to do with num_crtcs?  Well, this was technically
> > correct, but you'd have to go look at where num_crtcs is initialized to
> > understand why.  Lets just replace it with the simpler and more obvious
> > check.
> 
> If you want to fix this, then I think the right fix is to rename num_crtcs
> to be something like num_vblank_crtcs. It's a historical accident back
> when vblanks without kms was a thing.
> 
> Plan B is someone gets really busy and fixes up the entire vblank mess and
> moves it into drm_crtc struct. Now that the dri1 drivers are gone we could
> indeed do that.

And easy first step could to simply wrap all the naked
&dev->vblank[drm_crtc_index()] things into a function
call with some cocci/etc. That way most of the vblank
code doesn't need to care where that thing actually lives.

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