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

Aaron Plattner aplattner at nvidia.com
Wed Dec 10 10:28:43 PST 2014


On 12/10/2014 10:17 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
> Aaron Plattner <aplattner at nvidia.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Like any client deals with any resource which may disappear. Xlib's
> error handling is pretty painful, but it can be made to mostly work. xcb
> makes it a lot easier...

Fair enough.

-- 
Aaron


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