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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:36:53 -0700 From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Matthias Pfaller <leo@...co.de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug in dmi_get_year (causing apic not getting enabled) Matthias Pfaller <leo@...co.de> writes: > 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. Only if there is a leading 0.... Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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