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    SubjectRe: commit a29ccf6f823a84d89e1c7aaaf221cf7282022024 break console on slackware 12.1
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    On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:11:50 -0700, Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com> wrote:

    >Grant Coady wrote:
    >> I have the same issue, the line drawing characters are displayed as an odd
    >> looking C with a tail. Slackware-12.1 and Slamd64-12.1.
    >>
    >> .configs:
    >> http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/pooh/config-2.6.27-rc1a.gz
    >> http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/test/boxen/pooh64/config-2.6.27-rc1a.gz
    >>
    >> CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS=y ?? yes it's on
    >
    >This looks like an operator precedence bug introduced by
    >the patch.
    >
    >Normally I would test this myself before sending it out, but
    >I can't test 2.6.27-rc1 right now on my hardware due to another
    >bug in the 2.6.27-rc1 tree.
    >
    >Can you please try the following patch and let me know if that
    >fixes the problem?

    Hi Tim,
    Yep, this patch fixes the issue. Tested on slackware-12.1 with the
    default lilo option '#append=" vt.default_utf8=0"' commented out.

    Grant.

    >
    >Thanks,
    > -- Tim
    >
    >diff --git a/include/linux/vt_kern.h b/include/linux/vt_kern.h
    >index 14c0e91..8c8119f 100644
    >--- a/include/linux/vt_kern.h
    >+++ b/include/linux/vt_kern.h
    >@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ void con_protect_unimap(struct vc_data *vc, int rdonly);
    > int con_copy_unimap(struct vc_data *dst_vc, struct vc_data *src_vc);
    >
    > #define vc_translate(vc, c) ((vc)->vc_translate[(c) | \
    >- (vc)->vc_toggle_meta ? 0x80 : 0])
    >+ ((vc)->vc_toggle_meta ? 0x80 : 0)])
    > #else
    > #define con_set_trans_old(arg) (0)
    > #define con_get_trans_old(arg) (-EINVAL)
    >
    >



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