[PATCH 09/10] xfree86: remove xf86EnableAccess

Mark Kettenis mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl
Thu May 6 00:58:25 PDT 2010


> From: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
> Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 20:21:29 -0700
> 
> On Wed, 5 May 2010 23:57:00 +0200 (CEST), Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> > You can probabaly use a version smaller than 9 as there have been a
> > few ABI bumps since xf86EnableAccess() became a no-op.  But you'll
> > have to bump the ABI anyway when you remove the interface from the
> > server.
> 
> I think we only need to bump the ABI once per server release, and it's
> already been bumped for 1.9.

Ok, I wasn't sure what the policiy there was.  I don't really see a
downside in bumping the ABI multiple times in a release cycle, but
let's not turn this into an ABI versioning discussion.

In that case, Tiago should definitely use:

  #if GET_ABI_MAJOR(ABI_VIDEODRV_VERSION) < 8

in his diff.


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