[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#528357: /usr/bin/showconsolefont: produces garbage

[Michael Schutte]

Hi Norm,

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 01:56:38PM -0400, Norm Pierce wrote:
> Michael, you wondered which kernel introduced this behavior.  This problem
> first appeared with kernel 2.6.28-rc9, 2008-Dec-19 and was released in
> kernel 2.6.28, 2008-Dec-24.  The correction first appeared in kernel
> 2.6.30-rc3, 2009-Apr-22 and was released in kernel 2.6.30, 2009-Jun-10.
> 
> Here are the related commits:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git;a=commit;h=1c55f18717304100a5f624c923f7cb6511b4116d
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.30.y.git;a=commit;h=c0b7988200a82290287c6f4cd49585007f73175a

Thanks for your detailed investigation, it’s much appreciated.  I’ll
nonetheless keep the patch because it helps users with bad kernels and
doesn’t harm those without the bug.

Cheers,
-- 
Michael Schutte <michi at uiae.at>
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