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Subject: Re: Radeon Framebuffer Driver in 2.6.3?
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 11:22, James Simmons wrote:

> > It's a bit difficult to fix it while keeping memcmp, except if we do
> > a local copy of the var structure, which would eat stack space...
> 
> Yeah its a old bug. I don't know of a clean way to do that.

Heh, well... we have 2 choices, that's as simple as that: field-by-field
compare, or local copy + memcmp. It'd probably go for the first one...

Ben.