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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:33:01 -0000
From:	dick.streefland@...ium.nl (Dick Streefland)
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.27

Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@....pl> wrote:
| Here is a diff between a good and a bad kernel:
| 
| -edid_checksum debug: csum=0, all_null=255, err=1
| -edid_checksum debug: csum=0, all_null=255, err=1
| -Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
| +edid_checksum debug: csum=6400, all_null=255, err=0
| +Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
| 
| In the good one the function is called twice and it returns err=1 (==OK). 
| In the bad kernel it returns 0 because csum!=0x00 (==6400).

Linus accidentally dropped the "char" from the declaration of "csum" and
"all_null":

> -	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);

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Dick Streefland                      ////                      Altium BV
dick.streefland@...ium.nl           (@ @)          http://www.altium.com
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