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

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Message-Id: <20071108203451.1b7f28c0.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:34:51 -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

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.

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