[PATCH 1/6] wined3d: Add wined3d_shader_resource_view_desc.

[Józef Kucia]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Henri Verbeet <hverbeet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is the "view_type" field needed? I seem to remember that the view type
> needs to match the resource type, so you shouldn't be able to e.g.
> create a texture view on a buffer resource. The main other reasons I
> can imagine for having the field are cube views, and perhaps shaders
> making a distinction between array textures with a single layer and
> non-array textures. The latter could easily be handled by setting
> "layer_count" to ~0u for non-array textures, but since we have a
> "flags" field with plenty of extra bits, I think we could just use
> that to mark both cube and array views.

Yes, this information can be encoded in the "flags" field. The main
reasons for the "view_type" field are cube views and cube array views.