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From: Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer@cs.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>,
	linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i810fb: Fix console switch regression
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:09:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803180809.10020.stefan.bauer@cs.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080317204812.2c3e3754.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Am Dienstag, 18. März 2008 04:48 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:41:10 +0100 Stefan Bauer 
<stefan.bauer@cs.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> > From: Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer@cs.tu-chemnitz.de>
> >
> > Since 4c7ffe0b9f7f40bd818fe3af51342f64c483908e ("fbdev: prevent drivers
> > that have hardware cursors from calling software cursor code") every call
> > of i810fb_cursor fails with -ENXIO because of a incorrect "!".
> >
> > This hasn't striked until eaa0ff15c30dc9799eb4d12660edb73aeb6d32c5 ("fix
> > ! versus & precedence in various places") surrounded the expression with
> > braces, so that the intended behavior was inverted. That caused 'pixel
> > waste' - the same line of multi-colored pixels repeated over the whole
> > screen - during console switch.
> >
> > This switches back to the original pre-4c7ffe0 behavior.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stefan Bauer <stefan.bauer@cs.tu-chemnitz.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> > Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
> >
> > --- linux-2.6/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c.orig
> > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/video/i810/i810_main.c
> > @@ -1476,7 +1476,7 @@ static int i810fb_cursor(struct fb_info
> >  	struct i810fb_par *par = info->par;
> >  	u8 __iomem *mmio = par->mmio_start_virtual;
> >
> > -	if (!(par->dev_flags & LOCKUP))
> > +	if (par->dev_flags & LOCKUP)
> >  		return -ENXIO;
> >
> >  	if (cursor->image.width > 64 || cursor->image.height > 64)
>
> Can you please confirm that this actually fixes the bug?  That wasn't
> clear.
>
> Thanks.

Yes, yesterday I worked the whole day with that machine running -rc6 + my 
patch. The regression definitely is fixed, fbi and fbset work w/o problems or 
new regressions.

	Regards
		Stefan

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-18  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-16 18:42 [PATCH] i810fb: Fix console switch regression Stefan Bauer
2008-03-16 19:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-03-17  8:20   ` Stefan Bauer
2008-03-17 15:41     ` Stefan Bauer
2008-03-18  3:48       ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-18  7:09         ` Stefan Bauer [this message]
2008-03-16 19:57 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-03-16 20:02   ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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