[PATCH 17/36] privates: remove asserts that stop dynamic increasing of privates size.

[Keith Packard]

Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> writes:

> From: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
>
> These asserts stop us increasing the size of privates after create screen
> resources has been called, however for dynamic screens we need to be able
> to increase private size as new drivers are loaded.
>
> In theory any object allocated by an older driver won't try and use newer
> privates and any object allocated by a new driver should be okay.

I do believe this is wrong. As an example, the fine intel driver
allocates both PRIVATE_CLIENT and PRIVATE_GLYPH entries. Older
instances of both of those objects will not have space assigned.

Fixing clients would be pretty easy -- just use the serverClient
mechanism for all clients.

Glyphs seem a lot harder. The intel driver is cheating by knowing that
only one intel screen can be present. What we need are per-glyph
per-screen privates for drivers.

And, for other objects, privates should be allocated on a per-screen
basis. But, that seems even harder.

-- 
keith.packard at intel.com
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