xxx_check_var

Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org)
Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:40:10 +1100


When I look at atyfb_check_var or aty128fb_check_var, I see that they
will alter the contents of *info->par. Isn't this a bad thing? My
understanding was that after calling check_var, you don't necessarily
call set_par next (particularly if check_var returned an error).
Also I notice that atyfb_set_par and aty128fb_set_par don't look at
info->var, they simply set the hardware state based on the contents of
*info->par.

Looking at skeletonfb.c, it seems that this is the wrong behaviour. I
had fixed the aty128fb.c driver in the linuxppc-2.5 tree. James, if
you let me know whether the current behaviour is wrong or not, I'll
fix them and send you the patch.

Paul.
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