Re: mdacon driver updates

[Jan Schubert]

I've posted a small fix to mdacon.c at the end of last year (while 
Marcello was in vacation). It has'nt made it to the kernel yet, nor was 
there any feedback. I've thought, thats the way like open source works...

So, here we go again (against 2.4.17; my MDA is detected, but not 
initialized, see my last posting):

--- drivers/video/mdacon.c.orig    Sun Dec 30 02:44:25 2001
+++ drivers/video/mdacon.c    Sun Dec 30 21:36:50 2001
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
  *
  *  Changelog:
  *  Paul G. (03/2001) Fix mdacon= boot prompt to use __setup().
+ *  20011230 [e-mail] - consider non-Hercules MDA compatible
  */

 #include <linux/types.h>
@@ -291,6 +292,10 @@
                                break;
                }
        }
+       else {  /* consider non-Hercules as Hercules-compatible */
+               mda_type = TYPE_HERC;
+               mda_type_name = "Hercules compatible (hopefully)";
+       }

        return 1;
 }
@@ -342,9 +347,8 @@
                return NULL;
        }

-       if (mda_type != TYPE_MDA) {
-               mda_initialize();
-       }
+       /* at this point, we found an MDA */
+       mda_initialize();

        /* cursor looks ugly during boot-up, so turn it off */
        mda_set_cursor(mda_vram_len - 1);