Am 08.12.2003 18:57:14 schrieb(en) Ian Romanick: > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > Keith Whitwell wrote: > > > >> Is there any reason why these things are extern references rather than > >> parameters to an initialization function? > >> > >> Basically by making them extern references, it means that the files > >> cannot be compiled into a driver which doesn't use them - I guess this > >> is the reason behind the recent rework of common/Imakefile.inc. > >> > >> It also means that you can't have two drivers for two different cards > >> loaded in simultaneously, making hw-accelerated multihead impossible. > > > > This is of course not true. I'm grumpy today. But I would prefer not > > to have the circular situation of the driver referring to symbols in > > common/ and to have common/ referring back to symbols defined in the > > driver. > > Felix would be able to answer better, but I believe the reason was so > that the config utility could load the *_dri.so and get the list of > options for that driver.
Precisely. I forgot that myself for a moment. Anyway, it was specified that way in all the revisions of the design document and noone complained. ;-) So for the config tool they need to be external symbols somewhere in the drivers. We could still specify them as parameters to driParseOptionInfo to get rid of the dependency of common code on driver-specific stuff. However, the bigger problem is that you need to link with libexpat if you link with xmlconfig.o. I don't think we want that in drivers that don't use config (yet), after all the trouble people had with it. Regards, Felix ------------ __\|/__ ___ ___ ------------------------- Felix ___\_e -_/___/ __\___/ __\_____ You can do anything, Kühling (_____\Ä/____/ /_____/ /________) just not everything [EMAIL PROTECTED] \___/ \___/ U at the same time. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
