[RFC] Refactoring of dix/dixutils.c

Fernando Carrijo fcarrijo at yahoo.com.br
Fri Jul 30 13:57:56 PDT 2010


Tomas Carnecky <tom at dbservice.com> wrote:

> Fernando Carrijo wrote:
> >
> > I probably didn't understand quite well the reason for what you guys mean by
> > server-side XCB. Google did't help too much either, although I wonder it might
> > be not far from avoiding the burden of maintaining bulky and error-prone code
> > by automatically generating server internal request dispatch stubs based on XML
> > descriptions of the protocol. Is it better documented somewhere?
> 
> A few weeks I slowly started to work on that. Currently I have the DPMS
> extension protocol completely handled with code that I generate from
> xml. Maybe it's time to submit my work so far for review. Btw, I've
> chosen to put the source into a top-level directory proto/, because,
> after all, it's related to the X11 protocol.

Cool! That's a good direction for me to follow.



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