Re: [BUG] E7x05 chipset bug in 2.5 kernels' AGPGART driver.

Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Fri, 4 Apr 2003 09:58:08 +0200


On 3 April 2003 00:10, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:50:03PM +0200, Fendrakyn wrote:
> > There is a mistake in the Makefile of drivers/char/agp, the line
> > concerning i7x05-agp support does not match the one in the
> > Kconfig, thus e7x05 support is never compiled, be it as a module
> > or in the kernel.
>
> I'm really amazed. This has been broken for months, and no-one
> noticed. The day I fixed it in the agpgart bk tree, I got a half
> dozen reports, and now I'm getting one daily. Truly bizarre.

Jargon file have an entry about class of bugs which
are latent (do not bite anybody) until discovered.
When discovered, relevant pieces of code promptly stop working.

I thought that was a joke ;)

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