linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: Fix comment doc for format_modifiers

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Date:   Fri, 4 Oct 2019 22:28:02 +0300
From:   Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@...el.com>
Cc:     Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...labora.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>, kernel@...labora.com,
        Sean Paul <sean@...rly.run>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: Fix comment doc for format_modifiers

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 08:08:26PM +0100, Eric Engestrom wrote:
> On Thursday, 2019-10-03 16:53:18 +0300, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Andrzej Pietrasiewicz wrote:
> > > To human readers
> > 
> > The commit message is always for human readers, no need to point that
> > out...
> > 
> > > 
> > > "array of struct drm_format modifiers" is almost indistinguishable from
> > > "array of struct drm_format_modifiers", especially given that
> > > struct drm_format_modifier does exist.
> > 
> > ..but this paragraph still manages to 100% confuse this particular human.
> 
> There's an underscore instead of a space on the second line
> (s/drm_format modifiers/drm_format_modifiers/).

OK, so I guess I really am blind.

> 
> It should definitely be reworded to be much clearer.
> 
> > 
> > The actual code changes lgtm, so with the commit message reworded
> > this patch is
> > Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@...ux.intel.com>
> > 
> > > 
> > > And indeed the parameter passes an array of uint64_t rather than an array
> > > of structs, but the first words of the comment suggest that it passes
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@...labora.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> > > index d6ad60ab0d38..0d4f9172c0dd 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> > > @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int create_in_format_blob(struct drm_device *dev, struct drm_plane *plane
> > >   * @funcs: callbacks for the new plane
> > >   * @formats: array of supported formats (DRM_FORMAT\_\*)
> > >   * @format_count: number of elements in @formats
> > > - * @format_modifiers: array of struct drm_format modifiers terminated by
> > > + * @format_modifiers: array of format modifiers terminated by
> > >   *                    DRM_FORMAT_MOD_INVALID
> > >   * @type: type of plane (overlay, primary, cursor)
> > >   * @name: printf style format string for the plane name, or NULL for default name
> > > -- 
> > > 2.17.1
> > > 
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> > 

-- 
Ville Syrjälä
Intel

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