[PATCH xserver 0/4] Rework suspending GLX clients

[Keith Packard]

Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> writes:

> As far as I can tell, DRI3 clients do not need to suspend when VT
> switched. Also, the code to drive that suspension is in the wrong
> place, a client that only issued DRI1 requests but not GLX would not be
> slept on VT switch.

I'm not sure I understand why DRI1 and DRI2 clients need to have their X
requests suspended either? Are we using this to get them to stop talking
to the device on the client side?

> This series adds the concept of a VT client to the xfree86 core, sets
> connected DRI1 and DRI2 clients as VT clients, and removes vt tracking
> from the GLX code. There is presently no way to _unset_ a client's
> VT-ness; in the DRI1 case there's no "close DRI connection" request
> anyway. In principle DRI2 clients might not need this either but I'm
> not interested in proving it.

The patches look fine to me; I'm just not understanding what suspending
X processing while VT switched was ever supposed to do...

-- 
-keith
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