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From: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
To: "Jan Vesely" <jan.vesely@rutgers.edu>,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
	"Matthew W. S. Bell" <matthew@bells23.org.uk>,
	"Kristian Høgsberg" <krh@bitplanet.net>,
	"Kristian Høgsberg" <hoegsberg@gmail.com>
Cc: emil.l.velikov@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH libdrm v3 1/3] drmSL: Fix neighbor lookup
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:53:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55141D7E.7080606@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1427239003-25438-1-git-send-email-jan.vesely@rutgers.edu>

On 24/03/15 23:16, Jan Vesely wrote:
> Commit e4a519635f75bde38aeb5b09f2ff4efbf73453e9:
>     Tidy up compile warnings by cleaning up types.
> 
> removed call to SLLocate which gutted the function of all functionality.
> This patch restores the original behavior, with an additional fix
> that zeros the update array in case SLLocate bails early.
> 
> v2: zero the update array instead of checking the return value.
>     SLLocate returns NULL both on failure and if the element is greater
>     than everything in the list
> v3: Improve commit message
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Vesely <jan.vesely@rutgers.edu>
> Acked-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
> ---
> sorry for spamming, just realized it might be a good idea co CC the original
> author and committer.
> 
> This was broken since 2.4.18 (2010). I guess it's safe to say that nobody
> uses it. What are the policies on removing parts of API?
> 
Either nobody uses it or nobody which uses it cases enough to report/fix
it. Either way I think that people prefer to be cautious and do API
cleanups alongside a major bump of the library.

-Emil

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      reply	other threads:[~2015-03-26 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-20 22:10 [PATCH libdrm 1/4] drmSL: Fix neighbor printing Jan Vesely
2015-03-20 22:10 ` [PATCH libdrm 2/4] drmSL: Split tests to a separate file Jan Vesely
2015-03-22 15:18   ` Emil Velikov
2015-03-24 23:06     ` [PATCH libdrm 2/3] tests/drmsl: Extract tests out of xf86drmSL.c Jan Vesely
2015-03-26 14:49       ` Emil Velikov
2015-03-20 22:10 ` [PATCH libdrm 3/4] drmsltest: Check expected neighbours Jan Vesely
2015-03-20 22:10 ` [PATCH libdrm 4/4] drmSL: Remove test parts Jan Vesely
2015-03-22 15:22   ` Emil Velikov
2015-03-22 15:13 ` [PATCH libdrm 1/4] drmSL: Fix neighbor printing Emil Velikov
2015-03-24 23:16   ` [PATCH libdrm v3 1/3] drmSL: Fix neighbor lookup Jan Vesely
2015-03-26 14:53     ` Emil Velikov [this message]

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