On 23 March 2018 at 13:15, Tomasz Figa <tf...@chromium.org> wrote: > > Perhaps we could try to use drmOpenWithType() [2]. We could have one > property that would be passed as "name" argument and another property > for "busid" argument. I assume "type" would be always RENDER? > I would strongly encourage against using the drmOpen* API, it's a DRI1 remnant. It might work in a particular instance, but has a number of serious flaws. Some highlights: - using busid works only with PCI devices - open() w/o O_CLOEXEC - when build w/o udev - it creates a node: mkdir, chown(root), chmod, mknod - calls back into Xserver/DDX module - last but no least - borderline hacks with massive documentation [1] to keep this running.
Thanks Emil [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c?h=v4.16-rc6#n41 _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
