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

[Jordan Justen]

On 2017-04-21 04:02:11, Emil Velikov wrote:
> 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.
>

I guess when removing a feature that you don't use, it is easy to say
'meh' about its possible future replacement. I've actually used this
feature while debugging 2 applications in the past month.

Admittedly, this a bit more than I normally use it, but I also don't
see a motivation to removing it. So why not stall until there is an
alternative?

-Jordan