[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] RFC: mesa: remove MESA_VERBOSE env variable

[Emil Velikov]

On 21 April 2017 at 07:18, Jordan Justen <jordan.l.justen at intel.com> wrote:
> On 2017-04-20 18:49:57, Timothy Arceri wrote:
>> On 21/04/17 11:37, Jordan Justen wrote:
>> > On 2017-04-20 12:33:45, Samuel Pitoiset wrote:
>> >> I have used it sometimes, but since VERBOSE_API is missing in a bunch of
>> >> places, that's quite useless. :)
>> >>
>> >
>> > I also use MESA_VERBOSE=api every few months or so. I've found it
>> > pretty useful, but frustratingly I've nearly always ended up having to
>> > add new calls for it become useful.
>> >
>> > Something that automates wrapping the API probably is perhaps more
>> > maintainable.
>>
>> As Eric mentioned it would probably be best to add something to dispatch
>> generation if we want this to be reliable. It shouldn't be too difficult
>> to do.
>>
>
> Could that version could be implemented as a replacement before
> removing the current version?
>
As you pointed out this is something we might want to have in GLVND.
Not sure if how long it will take to write/merge that so stalling on
it is a bit... meh.

-Emil