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?

BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel

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