The topic of adding better enum/bitfield support to the protocol has come up a few[0] times[1] in the past, and again more recently[2]. We also have several proposed patches in patchwork, but I'm not sure they reflect consensus and none have Reviewed-by's on them yet [3,4,5,6,7].
From what I gather of the discussions, no one is really against this feature conceptually, and impementationally the discussions appear to have moved further afield. It feels like we're real close to having something that could be landed, but it's not 100% clear to me what exactly to land. Since it's a protocol types change I would prefer to make sure it has a strong consensus before landing it. I know that several people have proposed patches on this - Bill, Nils and Auke at least. Since there's a definite need for this, and since agreement appears to be not far off, I would like to get this landed this release. And ideally I'd like to get this landed early in the release so we give plenty of time for testing. Since Auke's patchset proposalis the most recent, let's take that one as the candidate for landing. Gentlemen, I'd like to ask you to review these three patches [5,6,7] and either give your Reviewed-by's or flag specific improvements needed. If you have a more conceptual disagreement, and don't think the patchset is landable as implemented, please raise that issue asap too. Bryce 0: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-April/021438.html 1: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-June/023008.html 2: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-September/024249.html 3: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/47726/ 4: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/47727/ 5: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/53018/ 6: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/53019/ 7: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/53020/ _______________________________________________ wayland-devel mailing list wayland-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/wayland-devel