Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:06:35 +0200 | From | Matthias Pfaller <> | Subject | Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled) |
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Hi,
dmi_get_year extracts the year with:
simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 0);
for biosdates in 2008 and 2009 this will return 0 because 8 and 9 are no valid octal digits. This will e.g. result in the apic not getting enabled. Changing this to
simple_strtoul(s, NULL, 10);
should fix the problem.
regards, Matthias Pfaller -- Matthias Pfaller Software Entwicklung marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8131 5161 41 Hans-Böckler-Str. 2, D 85221 Dachau Fax +49 8131 5161 66 http://www.marco.de/ Email leo@marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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