Re: [PATCH] fix drm ioctl ABI default

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:07:54PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> With all the vendors now shipping 4.2 this seems a bad thing to default
> to the 4,1 interface - especially as the 4.1 server is
> 
> o Buggy
> o Has security holes that are fixed in 4.2.1 only

I don't think that's the proper argument.  2.4.20 silently breaking
systems that worked fine with 2.4.19 is not the way new linux releases
work.  Vendors can of course feel free to have the new ABI by default.