[PATCH ati] Remove reference to pixmapPrivate.

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Fri Oct 1 10:22:23 PDT 2010


On Fri, Oct  1, 2010 at 13:14:51 -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:

> Irregardless of which solution is chosen, if someone wanted to compile
> a driver for an older server, they'd still have to checkout an older
> version of the server code to compile against. Wouldn't they? What are
> the chances a newer driver 1 year from now will still compile against
> the older server source?
> 
Typically they'd already have an X server (because it came with their
distro, or because they are the distro), and just want an updated
driver.

> Shouldn't a check like this be done at runtime? By making a decision
> like this at build time, aren't we sentencing the compiled driver to
> always only connect to either older or newer servers, but not both?
> 
Being able to run the driver without recompiling on different X server
versions only matters if you can't recompile your driver.

Cheers,
Julien


More information about the xorg-devel mailing list