[Mesa-dev] [PATCH V2 0/2] mesa: Modify drirc options

Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov at gmail.com
Mon Aug 21 13:37:35 UTC 2017


Hi Quentin,

On 19 August 2017 at 09:15, Quentin Liu <quentin.liu.0415 at gmail.com> wrote:
> This series of patches changes drirc's semantically boolean options, options
> that are enum type options but which in essence are boolean options e.g.
> pp_shalde, into actual boolean options.
>
> Backward compatibility is maintained by relaxing xmlconfig parser so that
> xml files before this change can still be parsed correctly.
> Driconf, unfortunately, will be affected by this. The issue will be
> addressed later by releasing a new version of Driconf.
>
> Also, note that these changes are made to fulfill requirements to
> participate in EVoC (Endless Vocaction of Code) hosted by X.org.
>
> Quentin Liu (2):
>   mesa: Fix backward compatibility for XML parser
>   mesa: Modify drirc option types
>
Will this change break compatiblity between new drirc file with old Mesa.
Should we care? Fwiw I don't mind either way.

-Emil


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