On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 05:37:34PM -0400, John Stanley wrote: > I have an old T22 Thinkpad with integrated Savage/IX-MV video. As > of linux-3.0, the video is non-functional; the PC either hard hangs > immediately or has totally garbled video, and then hard hangs, as > soon as I attempt to edit a file or cat a file with more than a > screen-full of text. > > The foregoing details are actually not important any more as in > looking at the code changes I discovered a typo in > linux-3.0.0/drivers/video/savage/savagefb.h; the attached patch to > fixes the issue. I am submitting this patch for inclusion in the > next patch-release of the stable linux kernel. > > PLEASE NOTE: > I realize that the patch does not quite adhere to linux kernel > patch coding-style conventions (in particular, spaces around logical > operators, and lines not exceeding 80 chars), but I have simply > changed an > '||' to an '&&' -- and NOT attempted to resolve pre-existing > coding-style violations.
<formletter> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly. </formletter> _______________________________________________ stable mailing list stable@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
