[parisc-linux] LCD driver trims whitespace

Helge Deller deller at gmx.de
Sat Apr 21 03:41:25 MDT 2007


On Thursday 19 April 2007, Julian Stecklina wrote:
> I have a HP Visualize workstation with this fancy little LCD at the 
> front controllable via /proc/pdc/lcd. The problem is that the 
> responsible driver trims all trailing whitespace, which is quite 
> annoying if you want to scroll some text. The attached trivial patch 
> (against 2.6.20.1) removes this behaviour.

I'm sure, there was a reason to strip the whitespaces. 
But I forgot it by now and it was probably a not very good reason :-)

Nevertheless, the patch looks good.

Kyle, could you add the patch to your git tree ?
-> http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/attachments/20070419/d58ce234/no-space-removal.bin

Helge



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