linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: Fix drm.h include

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Date:	Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:42:21 +0100
From:	Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>
CC:	emil.l.velikov@...il.com, dmarlin@...hat.com,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Brian Paul <brianp@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: Fix drm.h include

On 08/09/14 13:15, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On 09/08/2014 02:01 PM, Emil Velikov wrote:
[snip]
>>
>> To the VMware guys,
>>
>> Any objections if we update the libdrm header and drop the mesa/ddx copies ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Emil
> Hi!
> 
> vmwgfx libdrm is pretty obsolete and AFAIK not used by anyone.
> As such, it's unnecessary to release a new version of libdrm each time
> the vmwgfx header is updated, and I'd like to avoid that dependency.
> Better to keep the local copies in the gallium winsys and the DDX. Since
> the ioctl interface is backwards compatible, it doesn't really matter if
> the headers are slightly out of sync.
> 
Afaict libdrm releases are dirt cheap, and should not cause any issues. Yet
it's your code so you'll be the judge of it all.

I'm just a de-duplication fanatic :)

-Emil

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