[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] gallium: unify transfer functions

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2012-10-10 at 03:04 +0200, Marek Olšák wrote: 
> 
> this is actually a very small cleanup that got unexpectedly big. I
> really underestimated the size of gallium.

We used to do this sort of rework a lot in the early days of Gallium,
good thing it's settled down a bit. :)


> It's part of the plan discussed here:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org/msg17930.html
> 
> The idea is that get_transfer+transfer_map is folded into
> transfer_map, and transfer_unmap+transfer_destroy is folded into
> transfer_unmap. transfer_map must create and return the transfer
> object and transfer_unmap must destroy it. transfer_map is successful
> if the returned buffer pointer is not NULL. If transfer_map fails, the
> pointer to the transfer object remains unchanged (i.e. doesn't have to
> be NULL).
> 
> I couldn't send the patch to mesa-dev, because it's too big. It's here:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~mareko/mesa/commit/?h=transfer&id=7a102748a1240c4b2624c6727b480078d2905012
> 
> 103 files changed, 1204 insertions, 2014 deletions
> 
> There are no piglit regressions on r600g, softpipe, and llvmpipe. I
> haven't tested the other drivers nor have I tested the state trackers
> not covered by piglit.
> 
> I get that I won't get a review of the whole patch, but at least an
> ack would be appreciated. :)

Looks good to me, thanks for doing this.


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