[Bug 60852] Random memory corruption reported after writing to /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/edid_firmware

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https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60852

--- Comment #5 from Alex Villacis Lasso <avillaci at ceibo.fiec.espol.edu.ec> ---
(In reply to Chris Wilson from comment #2)
> You need to set that parameter on the command line for it to have effect for
> LVDS. I guess no one checked whether changing it on the fly was safe...

In mainline kernel with Fedora 18, if I set the kernel parameter, the kernel
hangs for more than a minute before mounting the root filesystem and booting
normally. The distro kernel does not hang (3.10.10), but I already downloaded
the source RPM and cannot find which patch, if any, solves this.

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