[PATCH] drm: shut up invalid edid messages

Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com
Tue Jan 29 05:27:39 PST 2013


My cheapo monitor has an invalid block 1, resulting in a lot of dmesg spam every few seconds.

I get it the first time that the entire block is all 0xff..

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org [v3.7]

---
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
index 5a3770f..4490080 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_edid.c
@@ -357,10 +357,14 @@ drm_do_get_edid(struct drm_connector *connector, struct i2c_adapter *adapter)
 				break;
 			}
 		}
-		if (i == 4)
+
+		if (i == 4 && print_bad_edid) {
 			dev_warn(connector->dev->dev,
 			 "%s: Ignoring invalid EDID block %d.\n",
 			 drm_get_connector_name(connector), j);
+
+			connector->bad_edid_counter++;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (valid_extensions != block[0x7e]) {



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