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Re: redundant xf86-video-intel patches



In article <21577.1422258252%splode.eterna.com.au@localhost>,
matthew green  <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>
>Patrick Welche writes:
>> We have local patches to use
>> 1) drmIoctl instead of do_ioctl
>
>i'm totally confused where this came from.  revision 1.2 didn't have
>it, and then we have this change:
>
>revision 1.3
>date: 2014-11-05 09:58:59 -0800;  author: christos;  state: Exp;  lines:
>+1745 -740;  commitid: BT2gIHeacl9mu1Xx;
>merge conflicts
>
>which introduces it.  i can't imagine it's necessary, but perhaps
>Christos should explain where it comes from?  (maybe pkgsrc?  it
>didn't arrive as part of the vendor branch.)

No, some of the drmIoctl was there before, and I added the rest for
consistency.

>
>> 2) drmMap   instead of mmap
>
>we almost certainly don't need this anymore.  please feel free to
>revert any drmMap() vs mmap() local changes we have.

Yes, please do.

christos



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