Re: [Mesa3d-dev] New tdfx driver, locking, small device driver changes

[Keith W. <ke...@va...>]

Brian Paul wrote:
> 

> 
> One more thing to consider: moving the locking to a higher level may make
> debugging harder.  When the driver has the lock, the whole display is
> locked so you'd have to debug from a different X display.  It would be nice
> if we could choose between the two locking levels at compile time.  That
> might be a bit ugly but could make life easier when debugging the driver.

This is feasible at compile-time, though I think that debugging remotely is
the better approach in any case.

Keith