[Mesa-dev] [Mesa-stable] [PATCH 1/4] mapi_abi: Allow more dynamic entries

Tapani Pälli tapani.palli at intel.com
Fri Feb 12 05:41:06 UTC 2016



On 02/12/2016 07:32 AM, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 9:27 PM, Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 02/12/2016 02:04 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11 February 2016 at 12:03, Tapani Pälli <tapani.palli at intel.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> From: Bernard Kilarski <bernard.r.kilarski at intel.com>
>>>>
>>> Here we should have justification why this is needed. If there is a
>>> program affected (or bugzilla ticket opened) do mentioned it as well
>>> please.
>>>
>>
>> These patches are part of bigger set (which I try to help to reduce) from a
>> internal customer branch with rather exotic stack and components. I'm not
>> sure if there's anything better than "we need more dynamic entries to be
>> available, current range is not enough" for justification here, does that
>> suffice?
>
> No... we want to understand the code we're maintaining, and that means
> having justification for changes that go into Mesa.

Well .. I guess in this case it's rather simple though. This is not 
about changing functionality but resizing a hardcoded table of available 
entries to be bigger so that caller of API can utilize more slots in 
dispatch table. This is how I understand the change.

// Tapani





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