[Mesa-dev] [PATCH] mesa/main: fixup make check after NV_conditional_render for gles

Ilia Mirkin imirkin at alum.mit.edu
Fri Nov 9 16:17:53 UTC 2018


On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:51 AM Erik Faye-Lund
<erik.faye-lund at collabora.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2018-11-09 at 10:44 -0500, Ilia Mirkin wrote:
> > Errr ... why are these being added to the ABI now? Extensions are
> > generally not added in. Some are grandfathered in, but this one would
> > be new.
> >
> > Or is this due to the fact that it's grandfathered in for GL, and
> > making that and GLES different would be tricky?
>
> I'm not sure, really. This feature missed the 18.3 release anyway, so
> we have time to fix this up, if anyone knows for sure.
>
> I don't think there's a good reason to cement this in the GLES ABI, so
> I think we should remove it, if that's possible. I don't really know
> what makes this appear in the ABI, though. If someone can explain, I'd
> be happy to fix things up.
>
> Anyway, I pushed the test-fixes for now; the ABI change seems to
> already have happened.

That cements it as an OK thing to do. When you push a buggy change,
the solution isn't "make the test ignore the bug". The solution is to
either fix the bug or revert the offending change.


More information about the mesa-dev mailing list