linux-kernel - Re: mmotm 2009-01-28-02-17 uploaded

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Message-ID: <4126.1233391214@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:40:14 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Holger Macht <hmacht@...e.de>,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-01-28-02-17 uploaded - docking station issues.

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:03:52 PST, Andrew Morton said:
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:25:43 -0500 Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:19:09 PST, akpm@...ux-foundation.org said:
> > > The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2009-01-28-02-17 has been uploaded to
> > >    http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

> > % ls -l /sys/devices/platform/dock.0/docked
> > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 2009-01-29 10:49 /sys/devices/platform/dock.0/docked
> > % cat /sys/devices/platform/dock.0/docked
> > =F1=DEcat: write error: Bad address
> >
> > strace of the cat shows:
> >
> > open("/sys/devices/platform/dock.0/docked", O_RDONLY) = 3
> > fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0444, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> > read(3, "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096) = 1812586496

> > Under 2.6.29-rc2-mmotm0116, this would return either "0" or "1", not 4K
> > of nulls.

> Is it due to
>
> acpi-dock-dont-eval-_sta-on-every-show_docked-sysfs-read.patch

Bingo. Reverting that patch and the sysfs-read-simplified.patch fixed it.

So obviously something in there doesn't agree with the innards of my laptop -

Dell Latitude D820, BIOS is A09 (current), if that helps anybody...

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