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

[Christian König]

Am 09.01.2017 um 11:58 schrieb 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)

I would start slower and at-least allow for a grace period or getting 
rid of this.

E.g. if ~/.drirc is present give a big warning on stderr that this is 
deprecated for at least one major release.

If we then find that we need a per user configuration file we can still 
add support for ~/.mesarc.

But in general I agree that file caused quite some pain for questionable 
gain.

Regards,
Christian.

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