[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915: Kill DRI1 cliprects

[Chris Wilson]

On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 03:19:36PM +0100, Tvrtko Ursulin wrote:
> 
> On 06/10/15 11:39, Chris Wilson wrote:
> >Passing cliprects into the kernel for it to re-execute the batch buffer
> >with different CMD_DRAWRECT died out long ago. As DRI1 support has been
> >removed from the kernel, we can now simply reject any execbuf trying to
> >use this "feature".
> >
> >To keep Daniel happy with the prospect of being able to reuse these
> >fields in the next decade, continue to ensure that current userspace is
> >not passing garbage in through the dead fields.
> >
> >v2: Fix the cliprects_ptr check
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris at chris-wilson.co.uk>
> >Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
> 
> Don't know anything about the DRI1 history but the removal looks
> fine to me, so:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin at intel.com>
> 
> Would it also make sense to rename the related fields in
> drm_i915_gem_execbuffer2 to reserved?

In our heads, yes. Renaming structs in uapi.h is harder than it looks.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre