On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 04:58:18PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > Hi all - > > This series stores connector/encoder names in the relevant structs to > make the name getters thread safe. > > What say you, is the wasted memory too high a price to pay for the > thread safety and implementation simplicity of this approach? I think > making drm_get_connector_name and drm_get_encoder_name return allocated > buffers makes a lot of code really ugly and error prone.
I thought we could use dev_set_name(connector->kdev, "foo"). -Chris -- Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
