RE: [AD] 4.3 graphic drivers

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 09:59 +0000, Vincent Penecherc'h wrote:
> A side note to this discussion, not on the vtables themselves
> but on what comes just before them:
> 
> struct DRIVER {
>    int  id;                            /* driver ID code */
>    AL_CONST char *name;                /* driver name */
>    AL_CONST char *desc;                /* description string */
>    AL_CONST char *ascii_name;          /* ASCII format name string */
> };
> 
> That would be a nice thing to have when dealing with a list of
> drivers you do not know the type of.
> One would have to make sure all drivers always have such starting
> members though (which is always the case at present I think).

Yes, I think that's a good idea. An alternative would be, have a vtable
entry "get_driver_info" for each driver, which would fill in a struct
like above.

This thread had a similiar idea:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11076650
(And the SF search is really broken.)

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Elias Pschernig