Re: libdrm: Changes to 'debian-experimental'
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:25:29AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 17:11 +0000, David Nusinow wrote:
> >
> > commit 7901afcce99a8af97e560d34e3685fd55eaa9c1a
> > Author: David Nusinow <dnusinow@debian.org>
> > Date: Sun Apr 15 13:11:06 2007 -0400
> >
> > * Add myself to uploaders
> > * Patch libdrm to default to device permission 666 so we don't have to do it
> > in xorg.conf. The only way libdrm can do anything is through the server
> > anyway.
>
> This last sentence doesn't make sense, please elaborate.
It's essentially what ajax told me, although I may have misinterpreted. My
impression was that in pretty much all cases, the server controls all
access via libdrm because all dri clients are running through the X server.
Is this wrong?
> > This can still be overridden by a user's xorg.conf.
>
> It might make sense to alert administrators to change this if they have
> untrusted users.
That's a good idea, I'll add a NEWS.Debian item for libdrm.
- David Nusinow
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