[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 02/11] vl: add entry point

[Zhang, Boyuan]

Thanks for the suggestion Emil. I modified each un-submitted patch based on the article you provided. Please see the newly submitted patch set.

Regards,
Boyuan

-----Original Message-----
From: Emil Velikov [mailto:emil.l.velikov at gmail.com] 
Sent: July-14-16 1:07 PM
To: Zhang, Boyuan
Cc: Christian König; mesa-dev at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Mesa-dev] [PATCH 02/11] vl: add entry point

On 14 July 2016 at 16:06, Zhang, Boyuan <Boyuan.Zhang at amd.com> wrote:
> For example, in patch 5/11 when " VaCreateContext", we used to CALLOC_STRUCT for "pps" and "sps" whenever we see video format is H.264. This is fine for decode ONLY case. Now, since we added H.264 encoding, "pps" and "sps" shouldn't be allocated. So we need to use the entry_point to determine this is H.264 decode or H.264 encode. We can use config to determine the entrypoint since config_id is passed to us for VaCreateContext call. However, for VaDestoyContext call, only context_id is passed to us. So we need to know the entrypoint in order to not free the pps/sps for encoding case.
>
This is a perfect example (one might call it too verbose, but that shouldn't be an issue) of a good information to add in the commit message :-) If a question is coming from a person familiar with the code this is a dead giveaway that the commit message is subpar.

I would kindly ask that you check through the readings suggested earlier [1] [2]. It seems like you did not have the time/chance.

Thanks
Emil

[1] http://who-t.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/on-commit-messages.html
[2] http://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/