[PATCH] drm: Allow also control clients to check the drm version

David Herrmann dh.herrmann at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 11:08:08 PDT 2015


Hi

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote:
> Hi, David,
>
> On 09/16/2015 04:35 PM, David Herrmann wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Thomas Hellstrom
>> <thellstrom at vmware.com> wrote:
>>> This should be harmless.
>>> Vmware will, due to old infrastructure reasons, be using a privileged
>>> control client to supply GUI layout information rather than obtaining
>>> it from the device. That control client will be needing access to DRM
>>> version information.
>> I didn't add it to render-nodes as I wasn't aware of any driver still
>> using the version-information.
>
> In fact you did add it to render nodes (commit 3d3b78c), but this is for
> control nodes.

Sorry, my bad. For control nodes is also fine.

Thanks
David


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