[PATCH 2/2] drm: make DRI1 drivers depend on BROKEN

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 09:15:07AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 10:06:57AM +0200, David Herrmann wrote:
> > The legacy DRI1 drivers expose highly broken interfaces to user-space. No
> > modern system should enable them, or you will effectively allow user-space
> > to circumvent most of your kernel security measures. The DRI1 kernel APIs
> > are simply broken.
> > 
> > User-space can always use vesafb/efifb/simplefb and friends to get working
> > graphics.
> > 
> > Lets hide the old drivers behind CONFIG_BROKEN. In case they turn out to
> > be still used (really?), we can easily revert this and figure out a way to
> > move them out of sight (e.g., moving all DRI1 drivers to
> > drivers/gpu/dri1/).
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> 
> I'd rather have a couple of distro devs check if they are still using
> any of these, and would value their a-b/r-b.

Mesa stopped shipping dri1 drivers years ago, and neither Fedora and
Debian here have that old version packaged (it should keep working since
the dri loader is an ABI). I don't think anyone needs this, and if I'm
wrong we'll hear about it ;-)

Both applied to drm-misc.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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