linux-kernel - Re: Linux 2.6.27.27

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:54:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Krzysztof Oledzki <oley@....pl>
To:	Jens Rosenboom <jens@...a.mcbone.net>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Troy Moure <twmoure@...pr.net>, 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 Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Jens Rosenboom wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 10:32 +0200, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Krzysztof Oledzki wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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;
>
> I guess Linus shouldn't have deleted the "char" here...

Yep! However, it took me one more hour to find it. I should have read my 
mails more often. ;)

Thanks.

Best regards,

 			Krzysztof Olędzki