On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:58:48 -0800 Kenneth Graunke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/31/2014 03:14 AM, Lauri Kasanen wrote: > > It's important not to break existing uses. There is no need to require > > udev for 3d. This is an alternative to Stéphane Marchesin's patch > > "loader: Make drmGetVersion logic conditional on non-pci devices". > > > > Signed-off-by: Lauri Kasanen <[email protected]> > > I'm still fairly astounded that a Linux user who cares about 3D graphics > would not have udev. Virtually every distribution has shipped it for > years. X input hotplugging has used udev for ages (at least on Linux). > Steam also uses udev. It's a really common system dependency. > > As far as I can tell, the "udev is part of systemd, so I won't touch it" > rationale is just FUD. Yes, the udev sources were put in the systemd > git repository a while back, but that in no way means you need systemd. > udev can still be built and used independently, and from what I've > heard, that will continue into the foreseeable future. Gentoo ships > udev 208 without systemd, so it definitely can be done. > > Other than that, the only other reason I've heard is "I don't want to > install a library", which IMO is pretty weak... The argument is "this setup worked, and was supported, for 10 years now". You don't break supported setups without good reason. - Lauri _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
