Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 27 Sep 2002 21:04:18 +0100 |
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On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 03:21, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > I don't think that's the proper argument. 2.4.20 silently breaking > systems that worked fine with 2.4.19 is not the way new linux releases > work. Vendors can of course feel free to have the new ABI by default.
Linus did the same during earlier 2.4 when we went from 4.0 to 4.1 DRM. There is a clear precedent for it from the boss 8)
In the general case it will autodetect the problem. There are some additional bitds (see the dri-devel archive) to investigate that may make it even more reliable
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