Re: [PATCH] matroxfb_base.c - not a so little patch

From: Petr Vandrovec (VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 07:17:04 EST


On 22 Mar 02 at 16:47, Denis Zaitsev wrote:
>
> The patch is against 2.5.5. It seems that matroxfb_base.c is still
> the same since that time. And I assume matroxfb_base.c with
> <if (var->bits_per_pixel == 4)> branch present, i.e. without my
> previous little fix.

Did you verified effects on generated code/data size?

> + for (p= &table[0].bpp; *p < bpp; p+= sizeof table[0]);
> + var->red .offset= *++p; var->red .length= *++p;
> + var->green .offset= *++p; var->green .length= *++p;
> + var->blue .offset= *++p; var->blue .length= *++p;
> + var->transp.offset= *++p; var->transp.length= *++p;

Please no. Access fields by their names, and do not assume anything
about padding.
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                
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