linux-kernel - Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled)

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Date:	Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:06:35 +0200
From:	Matthias Pfaller <leo@...co.de>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled)

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
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