Comment 58 for bug 368049

@Pitti, great question. I do indeed think it's safe, but I'm not familiar with the mesa codebase though. I asked on #dri-devel to be sure:

[00:50] <mnemo> could the first change in this patch cause ABI breakage if this patch was applied to an otherwise stable distro release? --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=25219
[00:51] <airlied> mnemo: don't think so
[00:52] <mnemo> we're about to ship it as a stable release update for ubuntu
[00:52] <mnemo> im thinking that all the apps call mesa and then mesa calls the mesa driver for that card right?
[00:52] <airlied> pretty much
[00:53] <mnemo> thanks daniel