drm/i915: rename preliminary_hw_support to alpha_support

The term "preliminary hardware support" has always caused confusion both
among users and developers. It has always been about preliminary driver
support for new hardware, and not so much about preliminary hardware. Of
course, initially both the software and hardware are in early stages,
but the distinction becomes more clear when the user picks up production
hardware and an older kernel to go with it, with just the early support
we had for the hardware at the time the kernel was released. The user
has to specifically enable the alpha quality *driver* support for the
hardware in that specific kernel version.

Rename preliminary_hw_support to alpha_support to emphasize that the
module parameter, config option, and flag are about software, not about
hardware. Improve the language in help texts and debug logging as well.

This appears to be a good time to do the change, as there are currently
no platforms with preliminary^W alpha support.

Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1477909108-18696-1-git-send-email-jani.nikula@intel.com

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
index 2a419500b81a..70a99ceaf43d 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_pci.c
@@ -439,9 +439,10 @@ static int i915_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 	struct intel_device_info *intel_info =
 		(struct intel_device_info *) ent->driver_data;
 
-	if (IS_PRELIMINARY_HW(intel_info) && !i915.preliminary_hw_support) {
-		DRM_INFO("This hardware requires preliminary hardware support.\n"
-			 "See CONFIG_DRM_I915_PRELIMINARY_HW_SUPPORT, and/or modparam preliminary_hw_support\n");
+	if (IS_ALPHA_SUPPORT(intel_info) && !i915.alpha_support) {
+		DRM_INFO("The driver support for your hardware in this kernel version is alpha quality\n"
+			 "See CONFIG_DRM_I915_ALPHA_SUPPORT or i915.alpha_support module parameter\n"
+			 "to enable support in this kernel version, or check for kernel updates.\n");
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}