linux-kernel - Re: worth submitting a detailed EDID structure?

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Message-Id: <1230936956.6095.5.camel@gaiman.anholt.net>
Date:	Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:55:56 -0800
From:	Eric Anholt <eric@...olt.net>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: worth submitting a detailed EDID structure?

On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 09:08 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> just noticed the header file include/video/edid.h, which defines
> video EDID info as simply:
> 
>   struct edid_info {
>         unsigned char dummy[128];
>   };
> 
> a couple months back, i had to mess with EDID info and defined a
> detailed structure to manipulate EDID fields.  is it worth submitting
> that as a patch and union'ing that with the above?  not a big deal for
> me either way.

The KMS code already has detailed EDID structures in drm_edid.h, for
what it's worth.  We still need to get CEA extension bits ported over,
though.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric@...olt.net                         eric.anholt@...el.com

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