linux-kernel - Re: fix rtc

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Date:	Wed, 20 May 2009 09:16:20 +0300
From:	Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>
To:	ye janboe <janboe.ye@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rjw@...k.pl,
	bunk@...nel.org, bugme-janitors@...ts.osdl.org
Subject: Re: fix rtc_cmos bug

ye janboe wrote On 20-05-2009 08:17:
> my fix is wrong?
>
> Why no one ack this patch?
>
> Thanks
>
> Janboe
>
>   

AFAIK any fix in a driver which causes this oops is a partial fix
because the case should be handled in driver core. This is what the
patch suggested does actually:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/driver-core.current/driver-core-do-not-oops-when-driver_unregister-is-called-for-unregistered-drivers.patch


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