There was a nouveau DDX that relied on legacy context ioctls to work,
but we fixed it years ago, give distros that have a modern DDX the
option to break the uAPI and close the mess of holes that legacy
context support is.
Full context of the story:
commit 0e975980d4
Author: Peter Antoine <peter.antoine@intel.com>
Date: Tue Jun 23 08:18:49 2015 +0100
drm: Turn off Legacy Context Functions
The context functions are not used by the i915 driver and should not
be used by modeset drivers. These driver functions contain several bugs
and security holes. This change makes these functions optional can be
turned on by a setting, they are turned off by default for modeset
driver with the exception of the nouvea driver that may require them with
an old version of libdrm.
The previous attempt was
commit 7c510133d9
Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Date: Thu Aug 8 15:41:21 2013 +0200
drm: mark context support as a legacy subsystem
but this had to be reverted
commit c21eb21cb5
Author: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Date: Fri Sep 20 08:32:59 2013 +1000
Revert "drm: mark context support as a legacy subsystem"
v2: remove returns from void function, and formatting (Daniel Vetter)
v3:
- s/Nova/nouveau/ in the commit message, and add references to the
previous attempts
- drop the part touching the drm hw lock, that should be a separate
patch.
Signed-off-by: Peter Antoine <peter.antoine@intel.com> (v2)
Cc: Peter Antoine <peter.antoine@intel.com> (v2)
Reviewed-by: Peter Antoine <peter.antoine@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
v2: move DRM_VM dependency into legacy config.
v3: fix missing dep (kbuild robot)
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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