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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fb_ddc: Fix DDC lines quirk
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:00:04 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1195851604.7195.10.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071123205309.7c40a931@hyperion.delvare>


On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 20:53 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 06:58:49 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 14:21 +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > The code in fb_ddc_read() is said to be based on the implementation
> > > of the radeon driver:
> > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fc5891c8a3ba284f13994d7bc1f1bfa8283982de
> > > 
> > > However, comparing the old radeon driver code with the new fb_ddc code
> > > reveals some differences. Most notably, the I2C bus lines are held at
> > > the end of the function, while the original code was releasing them
> > > (as the comment above correctly says.)
> > 
> >  .../...
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
> > 
> > Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> 
> Thanks. Antonino, this patch fixes two reported regressions. Can you
> please send it to Linus before 2.6.24 is released? Thanks.

It should also be send to -stable I believe and possibly distros.

Cheers,
Ben.



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      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-23 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-18 13:21 [PATCH] fb_ddc: Fix DDC lines quirk Jean Delvare
2007-11-18 20:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-21 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-11-23 19:53   ` Jean Delvare
2007-11-23 21:00     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]

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