Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH RESEND] drm/i915: Fix pipe/transcoder enum mismatches

From: StÃphane Marchesin
Date: Wed Jul 12 2017 - 22:28:50 EST


On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Ville SyrjÃlÃ
<ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 10:26:36AM -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > El Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 02:56:05PM -0700 Matthias Kaehlcke ha dit:
> >
> > > In several instances the driver passes an 'enum pipe' value to a
> > > function expecting an 'enum transcoder' and viceversa. Since PIPE_x and
> > > TRANSCODER_x have the same values this doesn't cause functional
> > > problems. Still it is incorrect and causes clang to generate warnings
> > > like this:
> > >
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c:1844:34: warning: implicit
> > > conversion from enumeration type 'enum transcoder' to different
> > > enumeration type 'enum pipe' [-Wenum-conversion]
> > > assert_fdi_rx_enabled(dev_priv, TRANSCODER_A);
> > >
> > > Change the code to pass values of the type expected by the callee.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c | 4 ++--
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_dp.c | 6 ++++--
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_hdmi.c | 6 ++++--
> > > drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_sdvo.c | 6 ++++--
> > > 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > Ping, any comments on this patch?
>
> I'm not convinced the patch is making things any better really. To
> fix this really properly, I think we'd need to introduce a new enum
> pch_transcoder and thus avoid the confusion of which type of
> transcoder we're talking about. Currently most places expect an
> enum pipe when dealing with PCH transcoders, and enum transcoder
> when dealing with CPU transcoders. But there are some exceptions
> of course.


I don't follow -- these functions take an enum transcoder; what's
wrong about passing what they expect? It seems like what you are
asking for has nothing to do with the warning here...

StÃphane

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