[PATCH v6 1/3] DRI2: add AuthMagic hook for driver side support

[Pauli Nieminen]

On 01/06/10 00:22 +0200, Owain Ainsworth wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:52:06PM +0300, Pauli Nieminen wrote:
> > From: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
> > 
> > With this new hook drmAuthMagic becomes useless and should be deprecated.
> > You might want to implement AuthMagic on driver side instead.
> 
> I still don't like the suggestion here.
> 
> So you think that every drm-based dri2 supporting driver should be
> changed to have a chunk setting this pointer to drmAuthMagic added?
> 
> I think far more drivers use that function than do not right now. If the
> deprecation does happen, then please can the changer provide the patches
> to the ddxen.
>

Naturaly any deprecation patch has to provide patches for open source drivers
first.

Pauli