linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/12] drm/nouveau/graph: enable when using external firmware

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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:21:43 +1000
From:	Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@...il.com>
To:	Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
Cc:	Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@...dia.com>,
	Alexandre Courbot <gnurou@...il.com>,
	"nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org" <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>,
	"linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org" <linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] drm/nouveau/graph: enable when using external firmware

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Thierry Reding
<thierry.reding@...il.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 05:42:30PM +0900, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> [...]
>> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/graph/nvc0.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/graph/nvc0.c
>> index 6ef8bf181b2d..f997a18f5760 100644
>> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/graph/nvc0.c
>> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/engine/graph/nvc0.c
>> @@ -1133,10 +1133,14 @@ nvc0_graph_ctor(struct nouveau_object *parent, struct nouveau_object *engine,
>>       struct nvc0_graph_oclass *oclass = (void *)bclass;
>>       struct nouveau_device *device = nv_device(parent);
>>       struct nvc0_graph_priv *priv;
>> +     bool use_fw;
>
> Perhaps "ext_fw" or "use_ext_fw" would be more accurate.
>
>>       int ret, i;
>>
>> +     use_fw = nouveau_boolopt(device->cfgopt, "NvGrUseFW", false);
>> +
>>       ret = nouveau_graph_create(parent, engine, bclass,
>> -                                (oclass->fecs.ucode != NULL), &priv);
>> +                                (oclass->fecs.ucode != NULL) || use_fw,
>> +                                &priv);
>
> Or perhaps a more intuitive way would be to name the variable "enable"
> and have something like:
>
>         if (!nouveau_boolopt(device->cfgopt, "NvGrUseFW", false))
>                 enable = oclass->fecs.ucode != NULL;
>         else
>                 enable = true;
>
>         ret = nouveau_graph_create(parent, engine, bclass, enable, &priv);
>         ...
Agreed, this looks a lot nicer.

>
> Thierry
>
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