Bug#1013462: libnvidia-allocator1 has worthless description

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 08:06:52AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> TBH, I have no clue what that library is good for.  Nvidia was not very
> informative when adding library, these are the two places where it is
> mentioned in the documentation:
>
>    o Various libraries that are used internally by other driver components.
>      These include '/usr/lib/libnvidia-cfg.so.510.73.08',
> [...]
>      '/usr/lib/libnvidia-allocator.so.510.73.08'.
>
>     * Added support for the GBM API. This adds the new symlink
>       nvidia-drm_gbm.so pointing to the file libnvidia-allocator.so.VERSION to
>       implement a GBM backend driver usable with the GBM loader from the Mesa
> [...]
>
> Do you have some suggestions what to put into the description instead?

Sorry, no.  I tried googling before I posted the bug report, hoping to find
a useful summary but didn't find anything.

> ("Nvidia probably knows a reason for the existence of this library."
> wouldn't be helpful either.)

Maybe something like "Nvidia hasn't bothered documenting what this library is
for" might encourage them to volunteer some details :)

craig

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