[PATCH 09/10] xfree86: remove xf86EnableAccess

[Mark Kettenis]

> Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 00:43:43 +0300
> From: Tiago Vignatti <vignatti at freedesktop.org>
> 
> Mark,
> 
> Mark Kettenis wrote:
> >> From: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
> >> Date: Sun,  2 May 2010 23:07:45 +0300
> >>
> >> It's RAC remnant. This was substituted by xf86VGAarbiter{Lock, Unlock}
> >> mechanism.
> > 
> > Is it really necessary to break drivers that might function perfectly
> > well on systems that don't require VGA arbitration because there is
> > only one VGA device in the system.
> 
> Not necessarily your driver will want to use the VGA arbitration. The 
> patch only cares about the removal of this unused API.

How can you say that this interface is unused when you know there are
drivers out there that still call it>

> BTW, is the driver that you care open-source? If yes, as I pointed on 
> the cover letter, it's pretty easy to go and provide some kind of fix 
> there. But in the other hand, yes, we can stay with a dummy API (like 
> now) to satisfy other closed or jurassic ones.

On OpenBSD we still ship the chips, s3virge and tseng drivers.  I
don't care about closed source drivers (others might), but I do my
best to keep older hardware working.