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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:13:17 -0400
From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@sgi.com>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default
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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:07:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 02:27, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Add a config option to make the i810 drm ioctl ABI XFree4.1 compatible
> > by default (currently that's a module parameter).  The XFree folks fucked
> > this up by adding members in the middle of a struct and we have to work
> > around it now.  At least we should have the pre-2.4.20 behaviour as default.
> > (And I'd suggest you add that option as y to the defconfig)
> 
> With all the vendors now shipping 4.2 this seems a bad thing to default
> to the 4,1 interface - especially as the 4.1 server is

No, not all vendors are shipping 4.2 yet.

> o Buggy
> o Has security holes that are fixed in 4.2.1 only

...or patched onto 4.1.x from 4.2 source.

4.1 is still out in the wild for most ppl.

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