[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 1/3] dri: Require libudev-dev for building DRI on Linux.

[Lauri Kasanen]

On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 10:46:21 -0800
Eric Anholt <eric at anholt.net> wrote:

> The loader infrastructure for everything but DRI2 requires that udev be
> present, so we can figure out an appropriate driver from the fd.  We don't
> have a portable solution yet, but presumably it will similar lookup based
> on the device node.
> 
> It will also be even more required for krh's udev-based hwdb support,
> which lets us have a loader that actually loads DRI drivers not included
> in the loader's source distribution.
> ---

This would break several systems that have worked for years. Please
don't.

- Lauri