[stable] [PATCH 1/3] drm: Separate EDID Header Check from EDID Block Check

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 01:30:12AM +0200, reimth at googlemail.com wrote:
> From: Thomas Reim <rdratlos at yahoo.co.uk>
> 
>     Provides function drm_edid_header_is_valid() for EDID header check
>     and replaces EDID header check part of function drm_edid_block_valid()
>     by a call of drm_edid_header_is_valid().
>     This is a prerequisite to extend DDC probing, e. g. in function
>     radeon_ddc_probe() for Radeon devices, by a central EDID header check.
> 
>     Tested for kernel 2.35, 2.38 and 3.0
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Reim <rdratlos at yahoo.co.uk>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++------
>  include/drm/drm_crtc.h     |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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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.

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Same goes for 2/3 and 3/3 as well.