[RFC] [patch] drm core internal versioning..

2004-10-09 Thread Dave Airlie
An issue raised by DRM people with the new drm core is how to stop users shotting themselves in the foot when upgrading drm modules from CVS and mixing up cores and drivers... This patch (against DRM CVS) proposes a simple internal version that gets passed from the module to the core, when built

Re: [RFC] [patch] drm core internal versioning..

2004-10-09 Thread Jon Smirl
How strong of match requirement do we need? Note that this only impacts distribution of binary personality modules, if you have source there is no problem. Several stronger solutions: on each CVS check-in to DRM increment a count and use this for an id manual version number for DRM embed the

Re: [RFC] [patch] drm core internal versioning..

2004-10-09 Thread Dave Airlie
How strong of match requirement do we need? Note that this only impacts distribution of binary personality modules, if you have source there is no problem. Not really I'm thinking more of someone building a module against one core and insmodding it against another one.. so someone builds a