linux-kernel - Re: [acpi:battery?] kernel oops on boot

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1004141641010.3640@terrop>
Date:	Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:50:04 +0300 (EEST)
From:	Tero Roponen <tero.roponen@...il.com>
To:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
cc:	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	astarikovskiy@...e.de, len.brown@...el.com
Subject: Re: [acpi:battery?] kernel oops on boot


On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Luca Tettamanti wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm seeing a similar bug on my notebook (Asus F3Sa) with current git.
> -rc4 does not work, while -rc3 does work.
> 
> The error (at least in my case) is a division by zero in
> acpi_ex_insert_into_field.

I have a similar problem with Asus M50Vm. git-bisect found
the following commit and reverting it does indeed fix the
problem.

commit dadf28a10c3eb29421837a2e413ab869ebd9e168
Author: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
Date:   Wed Mar 17 13:14:13 2010 -0400

    ACPI: EC: Allow multibyte access to EC
    
    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14667
    
    Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@...e.de>
    Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>

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Tero Roponen
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