On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 15:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > What would happen if I changed DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL to 1 for the i915 driver?
Nothing. :) Only the major version is supposed to signify outright incompatibility, the minor version signifies backwards compatibility within the same major version, and the patchlevel has no impact on the interface. All the other drivers are basically following this, only nouveau is abusing the patchlevel as a major version for reasons beyond me. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
