[Mesa-dev] renaming i965g

[Chia-I Wu]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Chia-I Wu <olvaffe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> Per the discussion, i965g is confusing and misleading.  Instead of
> preventing the confusions via
>
>   --with-gallium-drivers=i965g-unofficial or
>   --with-gallium-drivers=experimental-i965g,
>
> which kind of makes i965g a second-class citizen, I think it is better
> to rename it.  Then whenever one sees i965, be it on mailing list or
> in a commit message, we know it refers to the official driver that
> Intel supports.
>
> Let's say the new name is iFoo.  The gallium driver will be enabled
> via --with-gallium-drivers=iFoo, and the DRI driver will be named
> iFoo_dri.so.  Users will need to rename it to use it, and I hope this
> extra step will avoid the confusions.
>
> I'd like to call it igen, so that I do not need to reflow the code
> after running sed -i 's/i965/igen/g'.  But I am pretty bad at naming.
> If this approach or the name is frowned upon, please let me know.
To avoid false advertising, I will call the new driver ilo.  It could
mean nothing, or I Like OREO.

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