[PATCH ati] Remove reference to pixmapPrivate.

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Fri Oct 1 09:29:54 PDT 2010


On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 18:27 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: 
> On Fri, Oct  1, 2010 at 12:16:55 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl> 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.
> > 
> > What's the trick for compiling future drivers for older servers when
> > the given symbol has been removed from the server header files?
> > #IFDEF's?
> 
> #if ABI_VIDEODRV_VERSION < SET_ABI_VERSION(9, 0)
> old code
> #else
> new code
> #endif

That would work perfectly, if the ABI was bumped by every change which
breaks the ABI...


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