[PATCH ati] Remove reference to pixmapPrivate.

Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de
Sat Oct 2 10:53:10 PDT 2010


On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 07:23:05PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 18:57 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: 
> > On Fri, Oct  1, 2010 at 18:29:54 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> > 
> > > On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 18:27 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: 
> > > > #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...

So when there are 30 ABI-breaking commits between 1.9 and 1.10,
it should be required to bump the ABI 30 times?

> > It'll work for this specific bump.
> 
> Not when building against xserver commits between
> 5c6a2f93ebc16a78093782b442306de23ae94e78 and
> 1a9022d3289ff74043112808cc8aa315fd9c40e8 . Certainly better than merely
> checking the server version though.
>...

Does it really have to be supported to build against random older 
snapshots of unstable xserver?

cu
Adrian

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