linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.15-4

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Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2018 10:55:53 -0800
From:   Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Rafael Wysocki <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Subject: [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 4.15-4

Hi Linus,

Late cycle fix for a racy boot failure involving a wmi initcall. Thanks
to Rafael for the fix.

The following changes since commit 532298b95075144bcccf56d792f3fb3fbef2d5d0:

  platform/x86: dell-wmi: check for kmalloc() errors (2017-12-11 17:26:03 -0800)

are available in the git repository at:

  git://git.infradead.org/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git tags/platform-drivers-x86-v4.15-4

for you to fetch changes up to 98b8e4e5c17bf87c1b18ed929472051dab39878c:

  platform/x86: wmi: Call acpi_wmi_init() later (2018-01-08 10:47:48 -0800)

Thanks,

Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

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platform-drivers-x86 for v4.15-4

Address a wmi initcall ordering race resulting in a difficult to
reproduce boot failure.

The following is an automated git shortlog grouped by driver:

wmi:
 -  Call acpi_wmi_init() later

----------------------------------------------------------------
Rafael J. Wysocki (1):
      platform/x86: wmi: Call acpi_wmi_init() later

 drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center