Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default

Adrian Bunk (bunk@fs.tum.de)
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:33:05 +0200 (CEST)


On 27 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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
>...

Debian 3.0 ships with 4.1 and my personal estimation is that the next
release of Debian will be in 2004 (I'm happy if it will be earlier...).

> o Has security holes that are fixed in 4.2.1 only

The Debian maintainer of XFree86 claims that at least the Xlib problem
doesn't affect 4.1 [1].

> Alan

cu
Adrian

[1] http://people.debian.org/~branden/

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