This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled udl: handle EDID failure properly. to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: udl-handle-edid-failure-properly.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1baee58638fc58248625255f5c5fcdb987f11b1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:25:20 +1000 Subject: udl: handle EDID failure properly. From: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx> commit 1baee58638fc58248625255f5c5fcdb987f11b1f upstream. Don't oops seems proper. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_connector.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_connector.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/udl/udl_connector.c @@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ static int udl_get_modes(struct drm_conn int ret; edid = (struct edid *)udl_get_edid(udl); + if (!edid) { + drm_mode_connector_update_edid_property(connector, NULL); + return 0; + } /* * We only read the main block, but if the monitor reports extension Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from airlied@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/udl-handle-edid-failure-properly.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html