Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:00:19 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/3] matroxfb fixes and improvements |
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:49:37 +0200 Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> wrote:
> Not having heard of Petr in one month and a half, I am sending these 3 > patches again. Patch 1/3 (matrox maven: Fix a broken error path) in > particular should be applied ASAP. Patch 2/3 (matroxfb: i2c structure > templates clean-up) would be good to have as well and I tested it. > Patch 3/3 (matrox maven: Convert to a new-style i2c driver) needs > testing before it can go upstream. I can't test it myself, but it has > been in linux-next for 6 weeks or so.
I'll put all three into 2.6.27.
I suspect that #1 should be backported to 2.6.25.x and to 2.6.26.x but I am unsure about that due to its poor changelogging.
I _think_ that the machine will crash if the i2c_attach_client() or maven_init_client() calls fail. But I don't know under what circumstances that can happen, nor whether the bug has been reported in the field, etc.
And the -stable people also will be interested in such information when making their decisions.
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