xserver: Branch 'server-1.12-branch' - 12 commits

Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia jeremyhu at freedesktop.org
Tue Aug 21 12:03:05 PDT 2012


On Aug 21, 2012, at 10:56, Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 09:06:52 -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> 
>> commit 73d62f1aaea4a862cc512048cb6ca59586f4cdb6
>> Author: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
>> Date:   Tue Aug 7 17:49:46 2012 -0700
>> 
>>    Only free Render filter names on last screen close
>> 
>>    Hotplugging screens causes the render filter names to get freed while
>>    still in use; wait for the last core screen to be closed before
>>    freeing them. That only happens at server reset, when we want them to
>>    be freed.
>> 
>>    Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
>>    Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>>    (cherry picked from commit 19772670e3041fe1c7f5bbf32fa039a6d8245ccb)
>> 
> 1.12 doesn't hotplug screens, so shouldn't need this, right?

As I understand the issue, hotplugging *exposed* this latent bug.  It wasn't a bug caused by hotplugging.

I'll let keithp comment on it for clarification.

--Jeremy



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