Re: [PATCH] viafb: fix rmmod bug

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 28 2009 - 17:34:30 EST


(maintainers cc'ed)

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:18:48 +0000
Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx> wrote:

> This fixes a bug caused by changing pointers (viafb_mode, viafb_mode1)
> assigned by module_param. It reduces driver complexity by not needlessly
> changing these vars as they are only read once and removing now
> superfluous code.

Can you please provide a better description of this bug? What user
action triggers it, what effect is observed, what code defect caused
it, how the patch fixes it, etc?

Thanks.
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