[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] gallium/radeon: add an env variable to force a level of aniso filtering

[Ernst Sjöstrand]

2016-04-12 19:27 GMT+02:00 Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org>:
> On 04/12/2016 09:39 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:32 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>> On 04/12/2016 05:21 AM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:33 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
>>>>> radeon and r200 have a driconf option that is similar to this.  It sets
>>>>> a default initial max anisotropy value.  Maybe that would be better?
>>>>
>>>> If driconf didn't copy /etc/drirc into ~/.drirc, it would indeed be
>>>> better. This needs to be fixed in driconf before we can consider it
>>>> usable. After that, we can move such options there.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what that means.  You mean the driconf app?
>>
>> Yes, the driconf app. It unconditionally copies all app workarounds
>> into ~/.drirc and following Mesa updates can't remove them. If you
>> don't run driconf, ~/.drirc won't be created and you'll always get
>> updated app workarounds with newer Mesa.
>
> That sounds awful... as a user, I'm pretty sure that would fill me with
> rage.  It seems like the app should only operate on the user's ~/.drirc.
>  Having an "import from /etc/drirc" button seems like the right answer.
>  Forcing it on people is never right. :(

Isn't the best strategy to overlay (merge) /etc/drirc with the users changes?

Regards
//Ernst