Hi,

On 25 August 2015 at 00:32, Bryce Harrington <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:32:33PM -0500, Derek Foreman wrote:
>> On 24/08/15 06:27 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>> > From: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > Bumping libdrm requirement by 3 years just for output connector name
>> > constants was a bit much. Fix the problem introduced in
>> > 89c49b3060a115e846ba1e7fbef94d14894244f2 by conditionally using the new
>> > additions.
>> >
>> > Both VIRTUAL and DSI came in the same libdrm commit
>> > 566c3ce877a4be72697e15cdfc421ce965f7c37d, so we check only for DSI.
>>
>> Hmm, this is somewhat gross.  Is there a solid reason to care about
>> people who want to run new weston and ancient libdrm?
>
> I've been on the other side of this equation.  libdrm can be a royal
> PITA to have to change out, I can totally imagine there are several
> quite solid reasons one would want to run new weston and oldish libdrm.

Hm, how so? It doesn't break backwards compatibility, only adds new
symbols; the only exception I can think of is Nouveau when it had its
ABI break, but that was exceptional in a lot of ways.

Cheers,
Daniel
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