From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default
Date: 27 Sep 2002 20:07:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1033153674.16726.10.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020927212752.E4733@sgi.com>
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
o Buggy
o Has security holes that are fixed in 4.2.1 only
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-27 18:57 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 [this message]
2002-09-27 19:13 ` Ben Collins
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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