[Xcb] [PATCH 0/8] Updated version of DRI3/Present additions to libxcb

[Uli Schlachter]

On 07.11.2013 04:45, Keith Packard wrote:
> I've generated a new sequence of patches in response to the very
> helpful review comments received so far. Thanks to all involved!
> 
> Some simple cleanups that I have found useful. Patch 3/8 has been
> split out from the event queue patch and matches a change made to the
> XCB proto that adds an XML description of the X generic event
> structure. Seems like a sensible plan to me, given that the protocol
> generator already knows about the XGE fields
> 
>  [PATCH 1/8] Make protocol C files depend on protocol XML files
>  [PATCH 2/8] -pendantic is too pendantic
>  [PATCH 3/8] Remove xcb_ge_event_t from xcb.h

Oh, this means we also need a new xcb-proto release. That should have been clear
to anyone thinking about all of this for 0.5 seconds, but I totally missed that.
This means we need to bump our minimum required version of xcb-proto in libxcb.

Is there anything in xcb-proto's git master which isn't ready releasable?

> Deal with fd passing. This is now enabled only on Linux as the recvmsg
> code does not support non-Linux systems using the CMSG APIs. A
> configure.ac variable is also made available to disable extensions
> which require FD passing (like DRI3).
> 
>  [PATCH 4/8] Add xcb_send_fd API
>  [PATCH 5/8] Add support for receiving fds in replies
> 
> Here's the event queue splitting API. The polling function is now
> called xcb_poll_for_special_event, and the XGE filtering creator is
> now called xcb_register_for_special_xge.
> 
>  [PATCH 6/8] Add event queue splitting
> 
> DRI3 is now enabled only when sendmsg is usable for FD passing
> (Linux-only, until the sendmsg/recvmsg bits are fixed for non-Linux systems).
> 
>  [PATCH 7/8] Add DRI3 library
>  [PATCH 8/8] Add Present extension

All the patches except for patch 4 (with my comments included and tabs removed):

Reviewed-By: Uli Schlachter <psychon at znc.in>

Uli
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