[PATCH 3/3] xfree86: Kill pixmapPrivate with a vengeance

jamey at minilop.net jamey at minilop.net
Wed Sep 22 21:45:44 PDT 2010


On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk> wrote:
> ScrnInfo->pixmapPrivate only existed in order to catch invalid access to
> the framebuffer by making the backing data NULL across the VT switch.
> This was causing more confusion in the higher layers during mode setting
> without any real benefit, so remove it.

I know *I* was just getting confused by this last week, so hooray!
But... Can't you delete ShadowModifyPixmapHeader entirely at that
point? I don't think there's any useful code left in it after your
patch, just an unwrap.

Jamey


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