[PATCH xserver 0/9] Rewrite root window property setup

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Jan 6 11:45:52 PST 2016


Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> writes:

> Leo's patch to fix the EDID atom leak is probably correct, in the sense that
> it fixes the leak, but xf86RegisterRootWindowProperty is fairly ugly to
> begin with so I'd rather see it eliminated.  This series adds a generic
> callback for screen finalization and ports xfree86 to it.  Since
> dixChangeWindowProperty will copy the property data for us this should fix
> the leak as well, since we're not making a copy for xf86CreateRootWindow
> anymore.
>
> While I was at it I cleaned up some pointless API, and fixed a bug that
> prevented the EDID property being updated on hotplug events.

I'd say we nuke the EDID property entirely and just dump all of this
code.

But, if you want to keep it all, then this looks like the right plan...

-- 
-keith
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