linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] KMS: fix EDID detailed timing vsync parsing

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFx_6_dwYNGkZHvtZ=HgCjECrj-9nSWMJsH8VSHtfVMp7A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:47:13 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Torsten Duwe <torsten@....de>
Cc:	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] KMS: fix EDID detailed timing vsync parsing

On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Torsten Duwe <torsten@....de> wrote:
>
> EDID spreads some values across multiple bytes; bit-fiddling is needed
> to retrieve these. The current code to parse "detailed timings" has a
> cut&paste error that results in a vsync offset of at most 15 lines
> instead of 63.

Yeah, it clearly just mixes the bits together with that bitwise rather
than actually spreading them out correctly.

Applied.

                  Linus
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