[PATCHES] improve gamma support for randr-1.2 drivers

Matthias Hopf mhopf at suse.de
Wed Dec 17 09:56:57 PST 2008


On Dec 17, 08 16:43:00 +0100, Maarten Maathuis wrote:
> > My main question is, are there any xserver ABI's to bump due to the 
> > changes to the xf86CrtcRec struct?
> 
> Answering myself, no ABI bump is needed, because i only appended 
> something to a structure, and multiple instances of that structure are 
> not allocated as one chunk of memory.

I suggest bumping XF86_CRTC_VERSION, so that drivers can validate
crtc->version before using the new fields (if they want to, that is).

Matthias

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