Bug 93777

Summary: edid-decode spurious warning about string termination
Product: xorg Reporter: junkmailnotread
Component: App/edid-decodeAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: ajax
Version: git   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description junkmailnotread 2016-01-19 17:22:46 UTC 
EDID 1.3 states that if a Monitor Name descriptor (FCh) string is < 13 bytes then it should be terminated with ASCII 0Ah and padded with ASCII 20h.

If such a string is exactly 13 bytes then such termination and padding is obviously impossible.

However edid-decode will issue the following warning if the string is exactly 13 bytes:

"Name descriptor not terminated with a newline"

My feeling is that this warning is spurious because termination is only required if the string is < 13 bytes and the spec does not forbid 13-byte strings.
Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2018-08-12 20:35:10 UTC 
Fixed in: 
https://git.linuxtv.org/edid-decode.git/commit/?id=9cb3744ac4f06ec7c66a3599a2caa2b94aa7a1d8

Thanks for the report.

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