[PATCH 09/10] xfree86: remove xf86EnableAccess

Tiago Vignatti vignatti at freedesktop.org
Sun May 2 17:27:21 PDT 2010


On 05/03/2010 01:36 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 00:43:43 +0300
>> From: Tiago Vignatti<vignatti at freedesktop.org>
>>
>> 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>

sorry, I think I wasn't clear enough: this interface is unused on the 
*current* implementation of the server side.

So we 1) either remove this interface on newer servers, setting the bits 
on driver side accordingly or 2) leave as it is so far. I'm more 
inclined to go to 1) because I'm pretty sure we can be do in painless 
way for everyone just wrapping xf86EnableAccess with #ifndef 
LIBPCIACCESS. But I would like to hear arguments why not.


Cheers,

             Tiago


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