[RFC] Randr 1.3 feature - get property

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri Mar 7 10:16:34 PST 2008


On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:37:56AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> On Friday, March 07, 2008 3:38 am Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > 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?

Err, this will force a driver recompile anyway, so surely the only ABI
break avoidance would be from 1.5 -> 1.6, and meh.  (Ignoring all
pre-releases.)

Cheers,
Daniel
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