From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>,
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:13:17 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020927191316.GA564@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1033153674.16726.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:07:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 02:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Add a config option to make the i810 drm ioctl ABI XFree4.1 compatible
> > by default (currently that's a module parameter). The XFree folks fucked
> > this up by adding members in the middle of a struct and we have to work
> > around it now. At least we should have the pre-2.4.20 behaviour as default.
> > (And I'd suggest you add that option as y to the defconfig)
>
> With all the vendors now shipping 4.2 this seems a bad thing to default
> to the 4,1 interface - especially as the 4.1 server is
No, not all vendors are shipping 4.2 yet.
> o Buggy
> o Has security holes that are fixed in 4.2.1 only
...or patched onto 4.1.x from 4.2 source.
4.1 is still out in the wild for most ppl.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-27 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-28 1:27 [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 19:07 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-27 19:13 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2002-09-27 20:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-28 2:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-09-27 20:04 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-29 20:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2002-09-29 20:43 ` Alan Cox
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