Re: [Dri-devel] versioning ioctl and unique changes

[Michel <mi...@da...>]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 04:56, Eric Anholt wrote: 
> - What should the DRM do if the minor number for either DI or DD
> interface is greater than the DRM knows about?

Return DRM_ERR( EINVAL ) ?

> - Do we want to put some reserved fields in the SET_VERSION ioctl in
> case we want to extend it in some manner in the future?

The versioning could be used to extend it? :)

> - Should the libdri minor version be bumped for the new
> DRICreatePCIBusID function?  

I think so.

> Is using xf86LoaderCheckSymbol the way to see if it's available, 

That or the minor version I guess, whichever is more convenient.

> and does it need to be in the symbol lists for the drivers?

Yes, or it will probably be reported as unresolved when the dri module
isn't loaded.


> - I would like to move xf86drm.c to shared/drm/ (it's a shared file
> anyway).

[...]

> - drm.h should probably get re-merged and put into shared/

Sounds good.


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