[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] dri: don't load .drirc from $HOME

[Marek Olšák]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 7:25 AM, Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:
> On 09/01/17 03:13 PM, Michel Dänzer wrote:
>> On 07/01/17 11:46 PM, Marek Olšák wrote:
>>> From: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak at amd.com>
>>>
>>> ~/.drirc is created by the driconf tool (GPL license) and it overrides
>>> system drirc settings and can't be changed by Mesa updates.
>>> This drops support for the tool. It has been a source of major pain
>>> for us and it continues to cause problems.
>>>
>>> If people wanna keep this and enjoy the pain, I will make a v2 that
>>> applies it to radeon drivers only.
>>>
>>> v2: update comments and docs
>>
>> The problem is the driconf application (and possibly documentation
>> recommending its use), not the ~/.drirc file. This is throwing out the
>> proverbial baby with the bathwater. Fix the problem instead.
>
> As for something that could be done about this issue in Mesa, how about
> adding terminal output about which driconf options are set to what
> values from where, enabled e.g. via LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose ?

That would have no effect on anything whatsoever. The idea is to drop
support for driconf. That can be done by not loading ~/.drirc and
either:
- not loading anything, or
- load a different file from HOME instead (e.g. ~/.mesarc)

driconf uses GPL, which is not compatible with X.Org and Mesa.

Marek