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USB: Fix a bug on appledisplay.c regarding signedness

brightness status is reported by the Apple Cinema Displays as an
'unsigned char' (u8) value, but the code used 'char' instead.

Note that he driver was developed on the PowerPC architecture,
where the two types are synonymous, which is not always the case.

Fixed that.  Otherwise the driver will interpret brightness
levels > 127 as negative, and fail to load.

Signed-off-by: pancho horrillo <pancho@pancho.name>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
pancho horrillo 15 年之前
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共有 1 个文件被更改,包括 2 次插入2 次删除
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      drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c

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drivers/usb/misc/appledisplay.c

@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ struct appledisplay {
 	struct usb_device *udev;	/* usb device */
 	struct usb_device *udev;	/* usb device */
 	struct urb *urb;		/* usb request block */
 	struct urb *urb;		/* usb request block */
 	struct backlight_device *bd;	/* backlight device */
 	struct backlight_device *bd;	/* backlight device */
-	char *urbdata;			/* interrupt URB data buffer */
-	char *msgdata;			/* control message data buffer */
+	u8 *urbdata;			/* interrupt URB data buffer */
+	u8 *msgdata;			/* control message data buffer */
 
 
 	struct delayed_work work;
 	struct delayed_work work;
 	int button_pressed;
 	int button_pressed;