Someday I'll stop pushing commits to this damn PR

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ By @cwfitzgerald in [#3610](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3610).
 - Improve attachment related errors. By @cwfitzgerald in [#3549](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3549)
 - Make error descriptions all upper case. By @cwfitzgerald in [#3549](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3549)
 - Don't include ANSI terminal color escape sequences in shader module validation error messages. By @jimblandy in [#3591](https://github.com/gfx-rs/wgpu/pull/3591)
-- Bring anisotropic filtering in line with the spec. 
 
 #### WebGPU
 

wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/adapter.rs

@@ -345,10 +345,7 @@ impl PhysicalDeviceFeatures {
             caps.supports_extension(vk::KhrSwapchainMutableFormatFn::name()),
         );
         dl_flags.set(Df::CUBE_ARRAY_TEXTURES, self.core.image_cube_array != 0);
-        dl_flags.set(
-            Df::ANISOTROPIC_FILTERING,
-            self.core.sampler_anisotropy >= 16,
-        );
+        dl_flags.set(Df::ANISOTROPIC_FILTERING, self.core.sampler_anisotropy != 0);
         dl_flags.set(
             Df::FRAGMENT_WRITABLE_STORAGE,
             self.core.fragment_stores_and_atomics != 0,

wgpu-hal/src/vulkan/device.rs

@@ -1121,8 +1121,8 @@ impl crate::Device<super::Api> for super::Device {
         }
 
         if desc.anisotropy_clamp != 1 {
-            // We only enable the downlevel flag if supports 16x anisotropy,
-            // and wgpu-hal interface guarentees the clamp is in the range [1, 16]
+            // We only enable anisotropy if it is supported, and wgpu-hal interface guarentees
+            // the clamp is in the range [1, 16] which is always supported if anisotropy is.
             vk_info = vk_info
                 .anisotropy_enable(true)
                 .max_anisotropy(desc.anisotropy_clamp as f32);