pci issue - wrong detection of pci ressources

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 16:21 +0200, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> 
> >> radeonfb: EDID probed
> >> Parsing EDID data for panel info
> >> Setting up default mode based on panel info
> >> radeonfb (0000:00:0a.0): ATI Radeon Y`
> > 
> >    Hm, what's that Y`?
> 
> Thats the final message in the radeonfb driver ater initializing everything.
>    printk ("radeonfb (%s): %s\n", pci_name(rinfo->pdev), rinfo->name);
> I wonder why that rinfo->name is clobbered - maybe another issue, I
> have to keep that in mind.

It isn't clobbered, it's just the PCI device ID printed as characters.
That was a human readable string with early Radeons and thus convenient
for identifying them between humans, but that's no longer the case with
newer ones.


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