[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] egl/dri2: disambiguate driver name

Kai Wasserbäch kai at dev.carbon-project.org
Tue Oct 17 15:45:56 UTC 2017


Michel Dänzer wrote on 17.10.2017 17:42:
> On 17/10/17 05:26 PM, Kai Wasserbäch wrote:
>> So far the Mesa-internal EGL driver "dri2" returned "DRI2" as its driver
>> name. This causes confusion, because there is a kernel interface by the
>> same name where a version 3 is available.
>>
>> This change attempts to make it clearer that the "dri2" name of the Mesa
>> EGL driver has nothing to do with that kernel interface and is rather a
>> Mesa internal versioning of an interface.
> 
> DRI3 is an X11 protocol extension, not a kernel interface.

Ihrg, yes. Total brainfart there. Should I resend or can this be fixed when this
patch might be commited? As I do not have commit access somebody else would need
to do it then.

Cheers,
Kai

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