[PATCH xserver 8/8] Remove unused vtSysreq

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 09/15/11 20:51, Jamey Sharp wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 06:42:59PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> On 09/15/11 13:07, Jamey Sharp wrote:
>>> It looks to me like you should also delete VTSYSRQ from
>>> hw/xfree86/parser/xf86tokens.h.
>>
>> Please ensure that any changes result in the X server simply ignoring
>> the VTSysReq option in existing xorg.conf and not erroring out&  refusing
>> to start on a file that happens to have a no-longer-useful option in.
>
> If I understand the parser correctly (and I probably don't), it's
> already too late for that: while there's a VTSYSRQ entry in the enum in
> xf86tokens.h, nothing generates that token type. Instead, there's a
> VTSysReq ServerFlag. So deleting the token from the enum is not a
> regression, I think.
>
> I can't figure out at a quick glance whether unknown ServerFlags are
> treated as an error, though. Does the patch need to somehow make this
> flag be explicitly ignored if present?

Honestly, I don't remember - probably easiest to just test starting the
server (when built with this series) using an xorg.conf with the entry added.

I just remember prior issues here (see commits e0a451eb7cc & d2cf562bbad
from prior obsoletion - though those seem to be keywords, not options)


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