[Intel-gfx] [PATCH i-g-t] lib/drmtest: make DRIVER_ANY match any driver

Eric Engestrom eric.engestrom at imgtec.com
Mon Jan 30 12:18:07 UTC 2017


On Monday, 2017-01-30 11:50:52 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 30 January 2017 at 11:46, Petri Latvala <petri.latvala at intel.com> wrote:
> > NAK.
> >
> > DRIVER_VGEM is omitted from DRIVER_ANY intentionally. Vgem is unable
> > to modeset, unable to render, practically it only supports the
> > vgem-specific tests. See also: lib/drmtest.c, __drm_open_driver().
> 
> Yeah, I agree with this. It's mostly just there as an auxiliary
> helper. Opening DRIVER_ANY to vgem means that, if you run on a system
> with vgem as well as a supported driver, you can end up with a
> near-100% skip rate if you don't explicitly specify the device,
> depending on device-load ordering.
> 
> Cheers,
> Daniel

OK. This should probably be documented then (a simple comment next to
the #define would go a long way), so that the next guy who see this
doesn't make the same mistake I did :)

Cheers,
  Eric


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