[petsc-dev] MatLUFactor is an orphan

[Barry Smith]

  I believe MatLUFactor() is pretty bogus anyways. In place LU factorization only makes sense for dense matrices (LAPACK and LINPACK). 

   This is currently an interface to Elemental for MatLUFactor(). 

  Should we change it to MatDenseLUFactor()?  No solver package business needed separately since Elemental is its own matrix type anyway.

   Barry

  
On Oct 20, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> The dispatch mechanism is totally different from MatLUFactorSymbolic/Numeric, with no ability to choose the factorization package. Should it be changed to take a MatSolverPackage and then to dispatch using a MatGetFactor?