Messages in this thread | | | From | Alexandre Courbot <> | Date | Mon, 5 Jan 2015 20:50:18 +0100 | Subject | Re: [Nouveau] [PATCH nouveau 09/11] drm: export some variable and functions to resue the PM functions |
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 11:18:34AM +0800, Vince Hsu wrote: >> Hi Emil, >> >> On 12/30/2014 10:34 AM, Emil Velikov wrote: >> >On 23/12/14 10:40, Vince Hsu wrote: >> >>This patch adds some checks in the suspend/resume functions to distinguish >> >>the dGPU and mobile GPU and exports some variables/functions so that the >> >>nouveau platform device can reuse them. >> >> >> >Hi Vince, >> > >> >Afaiu one needs to export a symbol as it's used by another module or >> >subsystem. With the follow up two patches you are not doing either one, >> >so I'd assume that you can just omit the EXPORT_* changes. >> The nouveau platform device driver is built as another module - >> nouveau_platform.ko. :) > > I'd like to hear the opinion of the nouveau people and Alex, but I'd > very much prefer if nouveau_platform.o was simply linked into the > nouveau.ko module. I don't see any good reason to keep it separate.
Yep, I agree. The decision to host platform support in a separate module looks misleaded if it results in additional exports that we would otherwise avoid. IIUC I did this to be able to use the module convenience macros to register the platform driver.
> > Something like the attached patch (untested) ought to do it.
This patch alone won't be enough for the reason I mentioned above. However, if Vince doesn't mind handling the platform driver registration manually in nouveau_drm_init/nouveau_drm_exit, I agree this would be the way to go.
Cheers, Alex.
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