[RFC] Randr 1.3 feature - get property

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri Mar 7 09:37:56 PST 2008


On Friday, March 07, 2008 3:38 am Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > +#define XF86_CRTC_VERSION 1
> > +
> >  struct _xf86Crtc {
> >      /**
> > +     * ABI versioning, see xf86CrtcCreate
> > +     */
> > +    int version;
> > +
> > +    /**
> >       * Associated ScrnInfo
> >       */
> >      ScrnInfoPtr	    scrn;
>
> Isn't this again changing the ABI?
> Note that I don't have a better idea, except adding the version number
> further down in the struct, which of course is a bit cumbersome...

Yeah, but we're changing ABI anyway in this release, so I figured it was ok to 
break it as long as I'm adding a way to deal with breakage later on...

Do you think we shouldn't break things at all at this point?  Or is it ok for 
the 1.5 server to require driver re-compiles?

Thanks,
Jesse



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