[RFC] Randr 1.3 feature - get property

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Fri Mar 7 10:46:01 PST 2008


On Friday, March 07, 2008 10:16 am Daniel Stone wrote:
> 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.)

Yeah, that's what I figured (talked with ajax about this too), I'll just leave 
it as-is...

Thanks,
Jesse



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