linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/16] viafb: Determine type of 2D engine and store it in chip

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Message-ID: <4BCB49EE.8050006@gmx.de>
Date:	Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:05:34 +0200
From:	Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@....de>
To:	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>,
	JosephChan@....com.tw, ScottFang@...tech.com.cn,
	Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...top.org>,
	linux-fbdev-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] viafb: Determine type of 2D engine and store it
 in chip_info

Jonathan Corbet schrieb:
> [Getting back to the older stuff...]
> 
> On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 22:34:16 +0200
> Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@....de> wrote:
> 
>>>> Just a minor nit:
>>>> Could we change the default so that if someone adds support for a new 
>>>> IGP (and misses this function) we default to either the newest or 
>>>> preferably to none? I've just seen too much poorly maintained code in 
>>>> this driver and defaulting to the oldest is hence a bad idea.
>>>> Otherwise it's fine.  
 >
> In the absence of that, the only course of action which makes sense is
> to simply fail the initialization if an unknown chip type shows up
> there.  That's easy, and I can do it.  But, given that this was a
> "minor nit," can we leave it as-is for now? 

Yes, if you  feel too uncomfortable with changing it and agree that the 
whole stuff should be made more maintainable later on I am okay with 
letting this in as is.

> There's a *lot* of things to clean up in this driver, I'd like to make it
 > better a step at a time rather than trying to do the whole thing at once.

This is indeed very true.


Thanks,

Florian Tobias Schandinat
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