[PATCH 8/8] modesetting: Add output hotplug support

[Aaron Plattner]

On 12/10/2014 09:29 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
> Daniel Martin <consume.noise at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hmm, the awesome Xlib error handling ...
>>
>> Keith, what do you think, should I change the patch to keep the outputs?
>> In case, I have to admin, that I can't manage to do this during this
>> week.
>
> No, we don't need to work around client bugs like that.

How is a client expected to deal with outputs going away?  XSync() and 
wire up an error handler around all of its RandR calls?  If so, that sucks.

-- 
Aaron