Re: matroxfb not working after trying to upgrade to 2.6.3

[Juha Pahkala]

Juha <juhis <at> trinity.is-a-geek.com> writes:

> 
> 



by the way, I forgot this one the first time:

I had to apply this patch, found from the lkml archives, in order for
matroxfb_maven not to segfault when inserting the module.

--- gold-2.6/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c      2003-10-25
14:42:44.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.0/drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c   2003-12-22
21:55:04.082725504 -0500
@@ -1249,6 +1249,7 @@
                err = -ENOMEM;
                goto ERROR0;
        }
+       memset(new_client, 0, sizeof(*new_client) + sizeof(*data));
        data = (struct maven_data*)(new_client + 1);
        i2c_set_clientdata(new_client, data);
        new_client->addr = address;



juhis




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