kfb Xorg ddx module [PSARC/2008/180 Self Review]

[Alan Coopersmith]

Eric Sultan wrote:	
> Interfaces imported:
> - Xorg server CLI				External  (ref PSARC 2004/187)

The CLI or the driver module API/ABI?   (Both are External/Volatile, but
the driver module API/ABI is incompatibly changed far more often than
the CLI has been.   They are versioned to prevent loading incompatible
versions though.)

If I felt like paperwork, I'd say a contract is needed, but it would just
formally write down our existing behaviour of notifying the X/DDX teams
mailing list (internally) when a new Xorg release with a different ABI
version is planned to integrate, and making sure that the drivers delivered
from outside the X consolidation are ready for that (before your driver,
that's just the nVidia driver, and they already follow the community and
prepare for ABI/API changes in their Linux, BSD & Solaris drivers).

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering