[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v3] workarounds: Update workaround names and platforms

[Matt Turner]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 12:57 PM, Ian Romanick <idr at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> On 02/10/2016 12:35 PM, Matt Turner wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 10:04 PM, Ben Widawsky
>> <benjamin.widawsky at intel.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:35:45AM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Sameer Kibey <sameer.kibey at intel.com> wrote:
>>>>> Update the format in which workarounds are documented
>>>>> in the source code. This allows mesa to be parsed
>>>>> by the list-workarounds utility in intel-gpu-tools.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know that I find this valuable.
>>>>
>>>> Ben touched on one concern -- keeping it updated. But I have another,
>>>> and that's whether the information is accurate, or useful at all.
>>>
>>> I think the bottom line is it really doesn't hurt the existing situation. The
>
> Paraphrasing what Matt says below... It hurts the existing situation
> because it gives us a false sense of security.

Thanks. Yeah, that is a good way of putting it, and it reminds me of
the time when Fulsim wrongly told me that there was a problem $here,
but didn't say anything about the actual problem $there. Providing
wrong information is significantly worse than providing no
information.