On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 19:30 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:32:19 -0700 > > From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> > > > > Yes, binary compatibility is a problem. Putting additional data at end > > of structure is possible, but as was raised in the thread, this won't work > > if some code puts the structure on the stack. > > > > An alternative (like pci-utils) would be to have a sacrificial element. > > BSD PCI code would also have to change to do this. > > As explained in the thread, this is still an ABI break. There is not > much point in making these changes if you have to bump the shared > library major anyway.
As far as xserver is concerned, it's not an ABI break. We never embed a struct pci_device in any ABI types, only pointers to them, and they're always allocated by the library anyway so anyone sensitive to this change would already be doing something wrong. - ajax _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel