On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 14:11 -0700, Mike Mestnik wrote: > --- Michel Dnzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 21:08 -0700, Mike Mestnik wrote: > > > Your right about adding interfaces into the kernel, but what's > > > proposed(the non hotplug stuff) is small and relitively uninteresting > > > since it's not used by X. There are no currently pkged programs that > > > would use these extentions so there is nothing stoping a rewrite b4 > > the > > > user part is released. > > > > So you propose to add an immature interface to the mainline DRM/kernel > > and cross fingers that it won't turn into a maintenance and/or security > > nightmare before it gets rewritten? Sounds a little backwards to me. > > > maintenance: No apps currently shiped would use it I.E. it's not going > into X.
Then why does it need to go mainline? *shrug* > security: It's a simple ioctl to change modes, if it's not easy to audit > then it's overly complex for what it dose. Surely X has the same problem, > if you can some how make a modeline that runs arbitrary code? No, that's the difference between an abstract mode description and a register dump. For the latter, you either need to prevent harmful register value combinations (which I'm not convinced takes significantly if any less code than generating the register values in the first place) or require root privileges. (And root can already write to registers with the existing interface...) -- Earthling Michel DÃnzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - July 1 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CA REGISTER AND SAVE! http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf Priority Code NWMGYKND -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
