[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 5/7] intel: Remove silly check for !bufmgr.

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Sep 27 01:06:14 PDT 2013


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:36:00PM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> If bufmgr didn't get created, then screen creation failed, and we never
> should have got here in the first place.  This was added by Chris Wilson
> in 2010 with no explanation for why it would be needed.

Because it prevented a segfault, which you only fixed in 
commit 733d32f3765be84a7e908df7e99a278cadcee853
Author: Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net>
Date:   Thu Jun 20 10:00:18 2013 -0700

    i915: Fork the shared code from i965.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre


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