Bug 111637

Summary: Document configuration shadowing and clean up handling that in igt_core
Product: DRI Reporter: Arek Hiler <arkadiusz.hiler>
Component: IGTAssignee: Default DRI bug account <dri-devel>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: not set    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Arek Hiler 2019-09-11 05:14:49 UTC 
The current agreed order of importance is as follows:
.igtrc < ENV < --switch

or to put it in words
.igtrc option is less important than ENV
.igtrc and ENV are both less important than --switch

Real world example:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/63553/

device for IGT execution can be specified as Common::Device in .igtrc, IGT_DEVICE env variable or --device switch on command line.

The idea is that .igtrc is the default set on the machine that can be overwritten for the whole session with env or just for a single test with --device.

This needs to be documented and the whey we handle this in igt_core.c could use some streamlining.
Comment 1 Martin Peres 2019-11-12 07:41:38 UTC 
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