[PATCH ati] Remove reference to pixmapPrivate.

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri Oct 1 09:23:21 PDT 2010


On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 12:11 -0400, Gaetan Nadon wrote: 
> 
> On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 17:37 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
> > Also, drivers are supposed to work with some older servers as well,
> at
> > least some of them.  So even if removing that line for the current
> > server is OK, it probably isn't for older servers.
> 
> 
> Just a reminder for those reading this thread.
> 
> Should that information (the oldest server a driver wishes to support)
> become available,
> it should be coded in configure.ac:
> 
>         PKG_CHECK_MODULES(XORG, [xorg-server >= 1.0.99.901 ...)
> 
> with the appropriate rationale in the commit text.

Whenever possible, it should be preferable to check for (the lack of) a
feature directly rather than indirectly via a version.


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