Re: [Dri-devel] DRI/DRM handshake API

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 14:58, Jens Owen wrote:
> Please, staying on top of compatability with the simple rules we have 
> now is hard enough.  Let's not outsmart ourselves by going to a two way 
> handshake.

If you do it right it makes things simpler. You don't do any "handshake"
you just ensure the user space passes the client info on what release it
is (with not calling said ioctl first implying < 4.3/4)

Its only ever checked *if* someone does screw up. Until then it does a
return 0;