On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 09:40:55PM -0400, Matt Turner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:35 PM, Richard Barnette > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Still, cost/benefit matters here: Â Essentially, the justification > > for all this work is a debug feature (being able to print the information > > in the log when things go wrong), not a performance enhancement. > > I'm not yet persuaded that that feature is worth the identified effort. > > I'd still like to hear some opinions from people who do serious > xserver work, but from my perspective there's nothing wrong with only > executing this code if -verbose is used. The output of `lspci -vv` is > already a nearly required piece of any bug report, so I don't think > we're losing anything here.
Indeed. We already get a more accurate/useful device/vendor identifier string from the driver, and we don't need to know/care about non-GPU devices. I can see how it would be useful in verbose/error cases, but eh. Cheers, Daniel
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