[PATCH 09/10] xfree86: remove xf86EnableAccess

Vignatti Tiago (Nokia-D/Helsinki) tiago.vignatti at nokia.com
Thu May 6 11:14:42 PDT 2010


On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:58:25AM +0200, ext Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > 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.

Okay. I've done this and applied for chips, tseng and cyrix.


Thanks,
                Tiago


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