On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:38:28 +0000
Alan Cox <a...@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > There are some garbage after mousedev.c not present on older kernels.
> >
> > Reverting commit 81732c in v3.7-rc6 fixes the issue.
>
> Then we should drop this for 3.7 until a fixed one is provided IMHO.
> Its not relevant to most platforms.
Sorry, juggling with the byte offsets and the character indexes was not
so obvious.
Here is a patch towards the kernel 3.7.
Krzysztof, may you check it?
Thanks.
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -539,25 +539,25 @@
{
unsigned short *p = (unsigned short *) vc->vc_pos;
- scr_memmovew(p + nr, p, vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x);
+ scr_memmovew(p + nr, p, (vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x) * 2);
scr_memsetw(p, vc->vc_video_erase_char, nr * 2);
vc->vc_need_wrap = 0;
if (DO_UPDATE(vc))
do_update_region(vc, (unsigned long) p,
- (vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x) / 2 + 1);
+ vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x + 1);
}
static void delete_char(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int nr)
{
unsigned short *p = (unsigned short *) vc->vc_pos;
- scr_memcpyw(p, p + nr, vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x - nr);
+ scr_memcpyw(p, p + nr, (vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x - nr) * 2);
scr_memsetw(p + vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x - nr, vc->vc_video_erase_char,
nr * 2);
vc->vc_need_wrap = 0;
if (DO_UPDATE(vc))
do_update_region(vc, (unsigned long) p,
- (vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x) / 2);
+ vc->vc_cols - vc->vc_x);
}
static int softcursor_original;
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