[petsc-dev] PCFieldSplit broken, what was intended?

[Barry Smith]

On May 27, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Jed Brown wrote:

> On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 18:35, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> I quick and dirty fix would be to add a reset flag into PC_Fieldsplit and then do this block of code only if that reset flag is true then turn off the reset flag.
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> What about putting that block of code in a different function and calling it directly from PCReset_FieldSplit()?

   I cannot be called from the PCReset() it needs to be called during the next PCSetUp(). The information is not available yet at the reset time.

   Barry

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>     BTW: once we have PetscLayout containing field information we should totally rewrite the PCFIELDSPLIT to simplify and rationalize it,
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> Yes, absolutely.