[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 04/56] anv/entrypoints: Generalize the string map a bit

[Jason Ekstrand]

On March 9, 2018 00:35:06 Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net> wrote:

> On 2018-03-08 07:53 PM, Jason Ekstrand wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 8:45 AM, Dylan Baker <dylan at pnwbakers.com
>> <mailto:dylan at pnwbakers.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     > I know we've always given a lot of flexibility to vendor specific code
>>     > (i965 or nouveau), but you hope everyone can understand my frustration
>>     > with a 56 patch series that I sent review for 8 hours after it was
>>     > posted to the list and I got told "Oh, I merged that hours ago,
>>     > patches welcome."
>>
>>     I can. I guess Jason got a bit carried away by the Vulkan 1.1
>>     excitement.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps.  :-)  I do think that being there day-1 is important.
>
> The code was there on day 1 anyway. If being available in Git ASAP is
> that important (not sure why though), it can be made available in a
> repository other than the main shared one.

Thanks to things such as the oibaf ppa, landing in master means also 
landing in the hands of users.  There's a little extra delay but there are 
piles of people who now have a Vulkan 1.1 driver who wouldn't build from 
source.  Maybe not a huge deal but landing in master does matter over 
having a branch.

>> If nothing else, it shows the rest of the graphics community (who already
>> fears the concept of open-source) that working in the open isn't going
>> to cramp their style.
>
> It wasn't following the normal Mesa development process, so I'm not sure
> it's really useful for showing anything about that to anyone.

I'm not sure I follow.