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Subject:    Re: (fixes seq: A.1588) [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] sunffb driver can
From:       Ferris McCormick <fmccor () inforead ! com>
Date:       2003-02-12 12:17:51
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Maybe this can be the note on this.  Mike Harris (redhat/xfree86) 
indicates that xfree86/sunffb should be incorporating an official fix
for your problem.

It's too bad I didn't read the error indication from xfree startup 
literally in the first place.  It was telling us exactly what was failing,
but I didn't pick up on it.

Please let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Ferris


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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 16:36:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Mike A. Harris <mharris@redhat.com>
To: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@inforead.com>
Subject: Re: (fixes seq: A.1588) [XFree86(TM) Bug Report] sunffb driver can
    fail because it tests the return value of a -void- procedure during
    ScreenInit (fwd)


>> With any luck, sometime in the next several months, we'll have a 
>> bugzilla set up for this kind of stuff.  It'd sure save a lot of 
>> confusion on all ends IMHO.
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> TTYL
>>
>
>Thanks,
>  that explains it.  I was thrown by the comment that bug reports
>might never be read.

It's not far from the truth, prior to the bug report address 
being converted into a public mailing list.  IMHO of course.

>At least, I did suggest a couple ways to fix the problem
>reported.

I noticed in the CHANGELOG that your fix is committed to CVS now:

 866. The sunffb driver was treating a function with a void return value
      as if it had a Bool return value.  This causes the driver to fail
      in some cases (#A.1588, Ferris McCormick).


Take care,
TTYL


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat

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