Patch for bug #1912 applied incorrectly to 6.8 branch
Michel Dänzer
michel at daenzer.net
Wed Feb 9 22:25:29 PST 2005
On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:01 -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
> It looks like the two patches (bug #1912/patch #1433 and bug
> #1220/patch #980) somehow got merged into this single commit, and that the
> changes to radeon_driver.c between the time the diff was made for patch #980
> and when the patch was applied (including the original commit of the fix #980
> back in September) caused the patch #980 portion of the change to appear in
> the wrong section of the code the second time around.
The hunk context doesn't even look similar to me though...
> Of course, that's mostly academic, and the real question is how bad is the bug
> introduced by the extra line of code? Bad for performance? Likely to cause
> crashes or hangs?
As I said before: it's unnecessary writes to GPU memory controller
registers. In the best case, there's an unnecessary slight delay maybe;
in the worst case, the GPU might wedge.
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