On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 06:20:01PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2025, Rodrigo Vivi <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 01:09:46AM +0200, Andi Shyti wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 09:19:24AM -0400, Rodrigo Vivi wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2025 at 12:55:02PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 09 Oct 2025, Matt Atwood <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > > reg_in_range_table is a useful function that is used in multiple 
> > > > > > places,
> > > > > > and will be needed for WA_BB implementation later.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Let's move this function and i915_range struct to its own file, as 
> > > > > > we are
> > > > > > trying to move away from i915_utils files.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > v2: move functions to their own file
> > > > > > v3: use correct naming convention
> > > > > 
> > > > > Okay, Message from the Department of Bikeshedding and Nitpicking.
> > > > > 
> > > > > There's really nothing mmio specific about the functionality being
> > > > > abstracted. You have a range represented by two u32's in a struct, 
> > > > > and a
> > > > > function to check if another u32 is within that range.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The struct could just as well remain i915_range, the files could be
> > > > > i915_range.[ch], and the function could be, say,
> > > > > i915_range_table_contains(). IMO "mmio" makes it unnecessarily 
> > > > > specific.
> > > > 
> > > > hmm, I'm really sorry about that... That is my bad. I'm so bad with 
> > > > naming.
> > > > 
> > > > I suggested mmio in the name because i915_range is way to generic.
> > > > The other extreme side.
> > > > 
> > > > Perhaps i915_addr_range ?
> > > 
> > > If we use it only for mmio, why should we make it generic? If we
> > > want to keep things generic we could well use things from in
> > > range.h, as Jani has suggested in one of his reviews and add our
> > > function directly there.
> >
> > Well, I don't have strong feelings here.
> >
> > Perhaps i915_addr_range is more generic and middle ground.
> >
> > Jani?
> 
> Lots of bikeshedding here, but in the end just get it merged with
> whatever naming and move on?

We've all been here at some point, this is arguably the hardest part :D

Raag

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