Re: [PATCH] drm/aspeed: Fix vga_pw sysfs output

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Hi David, Daniel,

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 06:54, Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Joel,
>
> > Before the drm driver had support for this file there was a driver
> > that exposed the contents of the vga password register to userspace.
> > It would present the entire register instead of interpreting it.
> >
> > The drm implementation chose to mask of the lower bit, without
> > explaining why. This breaks the existing userspace, which is looking
> > for 0xa8 in the lower byte.
> >
> > Change our implementation to expose the entire register.
>
> As a userspace consumer of this:
>
> Reviewed-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Am I okay to apply this to drm-misc-fixes? I've not applied a patch to
the fixes tree before, so I wanted to check if there is some process
I've missed.

Cheers,

Joel



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