From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: ncunningham@users.sourceforge.net
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: Fix support for wide consoles in vt.c and include/linux/selection.h
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 16:29:03 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073626143.828.2.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1073621988.2003.40.camel@laptop-linux>
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 15:19, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> In implementing a 'nice' display for Software Suspend, some users with
> wide VTs reported problems with distortion. These changes from signed to
> unsigned int/char fixed the issue and have been tested for around a year
> (guesstimate).
>
> The only other user of getconsxy is vc_screen.c. It might benefit from
> matching changes, although the users who reported the problem to me said
> nothing about other issues with their displays, so far as I recall.
>
> To actually use the functions from Suspend, the functions also had to be
> made non-static. Of course I could make this into 2 patches if desired.
Also make sure you grab the console semaphore when doing those things,
or recent 2.6's (at least -mm) will probably bark on you :)
Ben.
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2004-01-09 4:19 PATCH: Fix support for wide consoles in vt.c and include/linux/selection.h Nigel Cunningham
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