Re: [Dri-devel] __driConfigOptions, __driNConfigOptions

[Felix <fx...@gm...>]

Am 08.12.2003 22:41:40 schrieb(en) Felix Kühling:
> 
> Am 08.12.2003 18:57:14 schrieb(en) Ian Romanick:
[snip]
> > 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.

Ok, Alan just took care of the libexpat problem. :) I'm going to fix the rest soon.

> 
> Regards,
>   Felix

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