linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] drm/atomic: Change state pointers to a more meaningful name

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Message-ID: <176034607170.51549.15195045845360719384.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:01:21 +0200
From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
To: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@....com>,
	Leo Li <sunpeng.li@....com>,
	Rodrigo Siqueira <siqueira@...lia.com>,
	Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
	Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
	Maxime Ripard <mripard@...nel.org>
Cc: amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/atomic: Change state pointers to a more meaningful name

On Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:11:42 +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> The state pointer found in the struct drm_atomic_state internals for
> most object is a bit ambiguous, and confusing when those internals also
> have old state and new state.
> 
> After the recent cleanups, the state pointer only use is to point to the
> state we need to free when destroying the atomic state.
> 
> [...]

Applied to misc/kernel.git (drm-misc-next).

Thanks!
Maxime