linux-kernel - Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/3] drm: Separate EDID Header Check from EDID Block Check

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Message-ID: <20110706235646.GC22814@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2011 16:56:46 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	reimth@...glemail.com
Cc:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
	Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>,
	Mario Kleiner <mario.kleiner@...bingen.mpg.de>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Tyson Whitehead <twhitehead@...il.com>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	Thomas Reim <rdratlos@...oo.co.uk>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 1/3] drm: Separate EDID Header Check from EDID
 Block Check

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:30:12AM +0200, reimth@...glemail.com wrote:
> From: Thomas Reim <rdratlos@...oo.co.uk>
> 
>     Provides function drm_edid_header_is_valid() for EDID header check
>     and replaces EDID header check part of function drm_edid_block_valid()
>     by a call of drm_edid_header_is_valid().
>     This is a prerequisite to extend DDC probing, e. g. in function
>     radeon_ddc_probe() for Radeon devices, by a central EDID header check.
> 
>     Tested for kernel 2.35, 2.38 and 3.0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Reim <rdratlos@...oo.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++------
>  include/drm/drm_crtc.h     |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

Same goes for 2/3 and 3/3 as well.
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