[PATCH wayland-protocols 2/3] linux-explicit-synchronization: Warn about using the protocol while using graphics APIs

Alexandros Frantzis alexandros.frantzis at collabora.com
Thu Nov 29 09:35:29 UTC 2018


Graphics APIs are expected to use this protocol under the hood, and
since there can only be one user of explicit synchronization per
surface, warn about using the protocol directly in such cases.

Signed-off-by: Alexandros Frantzis <alexandros.frantzis at collabora.com>
---
 .../linux-explicit-synchronization-unstable-v1.xml          | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/unstable/linux-explicit-synchronization/linux-explicit-synchronization-unstable-v1.xml b/unstable/linux-explicit-synchronization/linux-explicit-synchronization-unstable-v1.xml
index 5809b42..6d5783d 100644
--- a/unstable/linux-explicit-synchronization/linux-explicit-synchronization-unstable-v1.xml
+++ b/unstable/linux-explicit-synchronization/linux-explicit-synchronization-unstable-v1.xml
@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@
 
         If the given wl_surface already has an explicit synchronization object
         associated, the synchronization_exists protocol error is raised.
+
+        Graphics APIs, like EGL or Vulkan, that manage the buffer queue and
+        commits of a wl_surface themselves, are likely to be using this
+        extension internally. If a client is using such an API for a
+        wl_surface, it should not directly use this extension on that surface,
+        to avoid raising a synchronization_exists protocol error.
       </description>
 
       <arg name="id" type="new_id"
-- 
2.19.2



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