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Message-Id: <200808240219.41946.carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:19:41 +0100 From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk> To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> Subject: Re: Fix oops in acer_wmi On Saturday 23 August 2008 22:05:09 Arjan van de Ven wrote: > this is due to a null pointer due to a misordered initialization... > when the DMI quirks get run, the "interface" variable might not have been > initialized. The patch below 1) prevents the oops and 2) runs the quirks > again after all the "interface" initialization has completed. Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk> (Although this patch is missing an SOB from yourself). > This oops is new in 2.6.27-rc and thus counts as a regression... NAK - I disagree. This has been broken since day one, there is nothing special, as far as I am concerned, about 2.6.27 in this respect. (If this is showing up that much in kerneloops.org, then I would recommend CC'ing it to stable). -Carlos -- E-Mail: carlos@...angeworlds.co.uk Web: strangeworlds.co.uk GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D -- 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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