Re: [RFC v3 14/33] rust: drm/kms: Add OpaqueConnector and OpaqueConnectorState

[Lyude Paul]

On Fri, 2025-03-14 at 13:08 +0100, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 05:59:30PM -0500, Lyude Paul wrote:
> > Since we allow drivers to have multiple implementations of DriverConnector
> > and DriverConnectorState (in C, the equivalent of this is having multiple
> > structs which embed drm_connector) - there are some situations we will run
> > into where it's not possible for us to know the corresponding
> > DriverConnector or DriverConnectorState for a given connector. The most
> > obvious one is iterating through all connectors on a KMS device.
> 
> It's probabyl a bit of a stupid question again, but why can't we just
> iterate over dyn Connector / ConnectorState and need an intermediate
> structure?

no it's totally fine! I'm more then happy to explain stuff like this:

It's also good you asked because frankly - I actually don't know! When I was
originally coming up with this design through talking with Sima at the time I
was still learning quite a bit about rust so I think I assumed that we
couldn't use dyn because some of the requirements on the various Driver*
traits. Now that this design is a lot more fleshed out though I don't think
that would really matter at all, since we only use the Driver* traits for
generating callbacks and private driver data. So, mmmaybe I can replace the
Opaque types with dyn RawConnector/ModesettableConnector...

I will try this and see if it's viable, the one thing I'm unsure of is whether
this would be valid considering that dyn objects are dynamically sized, but in
the situations we use Opaque* objects unless things are upcasted we can only
guarantee that a mode object is _at least_ as large as some size n, rather
than an exact size. This might not actually matter though, I'm asking around
to see if other people know

> 
> Maxime

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 Lyude Paul (she/her)
 Software Engineer at Red Hat

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