On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 13:04:13 +0200, Matthieu Herrb <[email protected]> wrote:
> 3) makes it harder to maintain out of tree drivers, since API > breaks are not going to be documented anymore. > If old pre-kms code start to be removed, the people still > depending on them will need a forked X xserver, which is not a > good idea at all. Our current ABI change process is to find out when someone tries to run a driver which hasn't been recompiled against the development server. For changes which don't affect the API, that's often been Aaron Plattner, who maintains an out-of-tree driver. The ABI numbers live in a 16-bit space, and we've only used a tiny portion. I think we should feel fairly free to bump the ABI number anytime something changes, and not just once per server release. -- [email protected]
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