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Message-ID: <2419.4a66eadd.ced9e@altium.nl> 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); -- Dick Streefland //// Altium BV dick.streefland@...ium.nl (@ @) http://www.altium.com --------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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