On 03/04/17 01:31 AM, Keith Packard wrote:
Daniel Vetter daniel@ffwll.ch writes:
I'm also not sure whether we really want sub-leases in v1, that's easy to add later on, but for now just complicates stuff. Main compositor should be a full master, VR can be the first lease level, we don't need more I think for now?
We've discussed how leases might be used to implement multi-user support, so offering sub-leases means that environment could also support leasing resources out from the users session.
We also just don't know how useful it might be until we explore the space a bit more.
It should only be added upstream once it's clear that it's useful.
Given that it takes years to get new features into distributions, I tend to error on the side of generality.
Why would it take years? Distros seem to generally use the latest upstream kernel release available at release/freeze.