[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/29] drm/i915: prevent NULL pointer exception when using gmbus

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Fri Apr 13 22:18:17 CEST 2012


On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:08:41 -0300, Eugeni Dodonov <eugeni.dodonov at intel.com> wrote:
> Prevent a NULL pointer exception when we are trying to retrieve EDID data
> from non-existent adapter.

This just means that a HDMI with a garbage ddc_bus is never detected.
Since we control ddc_bus entirely, it means that the initialisation is
completely bogus. Please fix the root cause and not paper over
programming bugs.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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