Re: redundant xf86-video-intel patches

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 02:16:07AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> 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

Thanks everyone - differences removed...

P