Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
27 Sep 2002 20:07:54 +0100


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

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