Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM

[David Miller]

From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:24:57 +0200 (CEST)

> If being set to 0 (it's so easy to call memset(0) on a bogus pointer, 
> there are usually lots of them in the code) or to random garbage, it would 
> seem to be much more understandable, than 0xff.

Setting framebuffer bytes to 0xff is pretty common, for example
for color keys and anti-aliasing pixel values.
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