Re: [PATCH 2/3] drm/tests: edid: Update CTA-861 HDMI Vendor Specific Data Block

[Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>]

Hi

Am 16.07.25 um 17:06 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 01:02:33PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Am 25.06.25 um 17:14 schrieb Maxime Ripard:
>>> For some reason, the HDMI VSDBs in our kunit EDIDs had a length longer
>>> than expected.
>>>
>>> While this was harmless, we should get rid of it to make it somewhat
>>> predictable.
>> Dump question: should these errors be kept in another test specifically for
>> detecting this problem?
> I'm not entirely sure what you mean here, sorry. Did you mean that we
> should get some tests to prevent that kind of EDIDs from being accepted
> by the kernel?
>
> If so, I guess it would mean getting a test suite for the EDID parser
> itself, which is definitely something that should happen at some point
> but seems a little out of scope to me.

OK. I meant that these are ill-formed EDIDs and the kernel's EDID 
processing should handle them gracefully. A test could verify this. Not 
a blocker for this series, of course.

Best regards
Thomas

>
> Maxime

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