On Friday, February 21st, 2025 at 19:41, Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Other people have argued that strings make it easier for user-space to > > start using a new KMS property without deploying new kernel uAPI headers. > > I don't understand this argument. You would either need to define the > strings or the ints in your user-space app. You could do either without > deploying new uAPI headers. I suppose a string is less likely to be wrong/mixed up than a magic number? I'm probably not the best person to explain this side of the debate. :P Looking at Weston, it seems to just re-define its own enums matching the kernel strings: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/blob/6d9c42a7d294a1435822541ab4b3e12a8998dabb/libweston/backend-drm/kms.c#L49 For reference, one of the previous discussions: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2020-April/thread.html#261055 I think there was another one, but can't find it back…
