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I love a good bug

This is such a great bug.

There’s a rounding-error bug in the camera driver’s autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it’ll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again.

The 17th is the start of a new “works correctly” cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works.

So their good for the Thanksgiving holidays, but if they don’t get a move on it’s going to ruin Christmas and New Years!

One Comment

  1. so awesome; that’s like saying “Yahoo has troubles when Mercury is retrograde”, except they are working on a patch.

    Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:59 am | Permalink

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