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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 commit7c510133d9Author: 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 commitc21eb21cb5Author: 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>