Messages in this thread | | | From | Carlos Corbacho <> | Subject | Re: Fix oops in acer_wmi | Date | Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:19:41 +0100 |
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On Saturday 23 August 2008 22:05:09 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > this is due to a null pointer due to a misordered initialization... > when the DMI quirks get run, the "interface" variable might not have been > initialized. The patch below 1) prevents the oops and 2) runs the quirks > again after all the "interface" initialization has completed.
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
(Although this patch is missing an SOB from yourself).
> This oops is new in 2.6.27-rc and thus counts as a regression...
NAK - I disagree. This has been broken since day one, there is nothing special, as far as I am concerned, about 2.6.27 in this respect.
(If this is showing up that much in kerneloops.org, then I would recommend CC'ing it to stable).
-Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D
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