Ian Romanick <[email protected]> writes:

> On 08/26/2013 04:14 PM, Eric Anholt wrote:
>> Ian Romanick <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> From: Ian Romanick <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Instead of replicating the same code over and over and over, just put it
>>> in one file that each shader test can reference.
>>
>> I've been meaning to kill "[vertex/fragment shader file]" support from
>> shader_runner for a while. :(
>>
>> What I don't like about it is that it scatters the information about a
>> particular test to more places, which shader_runner had helped reduce
>> significantly.  And this feature is used very rarely -- looking at the
>> current list of tests using it, they mostly look like the first few
>> shader_runner tests we made.
>>
>> For the changes you wanted to do in this series, a sed job looks like it
>> would have been just fine.
>
> I think it's not used much because most people don't know it's 
> available.  These are the (only?) cases where it's useful: you don't 
> want to type the dummy, pass-through vertex shader over and over and 
> over.  Maybe we should replace it with a more limited "[vertex shader 
> passthrough]" option?
>
> I did the refactor in this series mostly to reduce the amount of reading 
> in the patches that counted.  I also tried a sed job (via emacs macros), 
> but many of the pass-through shaders were very slightly different. :(

A standard pass-through VS in shader_runner is something I think I could
get behind.

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