linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc1: OOPS at acpi_battery

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Date:	Fri, 9 Nov 2007 01:49:44 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
Cc:	rjw@...k.pl, hannes-kernel@...urebad.de, listen@...fservix.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1: OOPS at  acpi_battery_update

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:36:43 +0300 Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de> wrote:

> Andrew Morton wrote:
> > A> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:35:23 +0300 Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de> wrote:
> >> [remove_cycle_at_battery_removal.patch  text/x-patch (1.7KB)]
> >> ACPI: Battery: remove cycle from battery removal.
> >>
> >> From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
> >>
> >> get_property() should not call battery_update() on absent battery to
> >> avoid cycle and oops.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
> >> Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
> > 
> > A patch similar to this one but with an identical changelog was merged into
> > Len's tree on November 2.
> > 
> > If it had been promptly merged into mainline then quite a lot of people's
> > time would not have been wasted.
> > 
> Andrew,
> should I send such patches directly to you/Linus?
> 

Well if Len doesn't object and you're confident in the changes, why not? 
Any time we leave bugs unfixed we drive away testers and that impacts all
parts of the kernel.

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