[PATCH v6 1/3] DRI2: add AuthMagic hook for driver side support

Owain Ainsworth zerooa at googlemail.com
Mon May 31 15:22:21 PDT 2010


On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:52:06PM +0300, Pauli Nieminen wrote:
> From: Tiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti at nokia.com>
> 
> With this new hook drmAuthMagic becomes useless and should be deprecated.
> You might want to implement AuthMagic on driver side instead.

I still don't like the suggestion here.

So you think that every drm-based dri2 supporting driver should be
changed to have a chunk setting this pointer to drmAuthMagic added?

I think far more drivers use that function than do not right now. If the
deprecation does happen, then please can the changer provide the patches
to the ddxen.

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