Re: logic error in radeonfb.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 02:10:46 EST


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:46:35PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 17:35, davej@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Looks like another instance of a ! in the wrong place.
>
> Ohh, and _oooold_ bug fixed a long time ago in 2.4. There may actually
> be another occurence of this one elsewhere iirc. I'll check that.

Back then someone came up with a cool one-liner that grepped for
suspicious if's with !'s, it seems no-one ever did the same for 2.6,
as there were a few others (see seperate mails for patches).

> that this code is powermac specific anyway and that old radeonfb doesn't
> work very well on a lot of powermacs, so it's not very urgent. The new
> radeonfb which has that fixed for a long time will get in along with
> the fbdev updates as soon as I'm finished cleaning them up.

Ok, If this is going to make your merge more difficult, feel free to ignore it.

Dave

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