[PATCH 09/10] xfree86: remove xf86EnableAccess

[Tiago Vignatti]

On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:44:38PM +0200, ext Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 00:43 +0300, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> 
> > Not necessarily your driver will want to use the VGA arbitration. The 
> > patch only cares about the removal of this unused API.
> > 
> > BTW, is the driver that you care open-source? If yes, as I pointed on 
> > the cover letter, it's pretty easy to go and provide some kind of fix 
> > there. But in the other hand, yes, we can stay with a dummy API (like 
> > now) to satisfy other closed or jurassic ones.
> 
> I have made it a point to fix the drivers consuming API I want to
> remove, before removing it.  For example:
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vesa/commit/?id=d994a9abbda582ccd6d38447ca2201de10cc36a5
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-chips/commit/?id=1c51b5495c51306d7c949583050cdba6f1baf5cc
> 
> It's usually trivial, and it prevents people from complaining.

What about this one here:  

    http://people.freedesktop.org/~vignatti/tmp/0001-Check-xf86EnableAccess-only-in-old-servers.patch

Seems a bit more clean, but then we'll need to bump video driver ABI. Mark,
looks reasonable for you as well? If yes, I'll go and apply in all ~5
remaining drivers.

        Tiago