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Driver probe should check for presence of Wayland extension

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#2,288 opened on Jan 20, 2022

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Description

At least the gbm and eglstream drivers already check GL properties, so it would be easy enough to check for the presence of WL_bind_wayland_display and bail if it is not present.

Alternatively, we could make WL_bind_wayland_display optional in the presence of other Wayland-buffer-sharing extensions?

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Research direction
Inspect the gbm and eglstream driver probe functions to determine where to add the Wayland extension check.
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
backend
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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C++Wayland
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60