[Libva] [PATCH v2 1/7] API: add support for raw DRM.

[Huang, Haitao]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Yuan, Shengquan
<shengquan.yuan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Huang, Haitao <haitao.huang at intel.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Android, surface flinger will be the master because it comes up
>> first. However, we do not need DRM authentication.
>> DRM authentication was really for remote clients.
>>
>> Haitao
>>
> The purpose is for remote client, but local client still need pass
> authentication before it can send ioctls. Is that right?
> Of course, we can disable it by a chang in drm_drv.c:drm_ioctl or
> somewhere. I am just thinking if we have a universal
> way so that the same code works for everything.
>

I don't see enabling DRM authentication on Android  give you any
benefit but  requires adding more code changes everywhere.
So it's better to have one line change at the bottom than to have many
lines of code changes in upper layers.

> Thanks
> -Austin