> > No. > > IMO Not fixing this immediately through stable is out of the question. > The deal is that we don't break userspace. > Having said that, I'm not against a long term vmwgfx-only solution. But > let's fix this now. > > Admittedly we missed testing this but you got to understand that not all > developer teams have a multitude of > developers (we have on average one for the whole linux graphics driver > stack except GL), and the bug > doesn't show up for QE on regression testing unless they run > gnome-sheel/Wayland which they currently don't, and I guess they've been > focused on the fb2 regression. > > It's no secret that we've been using the control nodes for some time. > The CONTROL_ALLOW is present in the > driver private ioctls and the commit has been there since 2016. > > The user-space code has been present in vmware-tools also since that > commit and due to the long release cycles of > open-vm-tools the open-vm-tools version was just about to be released. > It's necessary for non-xorg can you send a revert against drm-next? I'm not sure how clean it will be. there might be an intermediate step. Then can we port vmtools of this behaviour, not even sure what it is doing. Dave. _______________________________________________ Intel-gfx mailing list Intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx
