linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.27.27

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0907211811410.19335@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:16:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Troy Moure <twmoure@...pr.net>
cc:	Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@....pl>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, stable@...nel.org,
	lwn@....net, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.27



On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Anyway, I bet we can work around the compiler bug by just changing the 
> type of "i" from "unsigned char" to be a plain "int".

IOW, like this.

		Linus

---
 drivers/video/fbmon.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmon.c b/drivers/video/fbmon.c
index 5c1a2c0..af4a15c 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbmon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbmon.c
@@ -256,8 +256,8 @@ static void fix_edid(unsigned char *edid, int fix)
 
 static int edid_checksum(unsigned char *edid)
 {
-	unsigned char i, csum = 0, all_null = 0;
-	int err = 0, fix = check_edid(edid);
+	unsigned csum = 0, all_null = 0;
+	int i, err = 0, fix = check_edid(edid);
 
 	if (fix)
 		fix_edid(edid, fix);
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