On Sun, 05 Aug 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: > René Treffer reported that booting a CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI=y kernel on a > machine without the hardware results in an Oops. > > The trace is thinkpad_acpi_module_init -> thinkpad_acpi_module_exit -> > driver_remove_file -> sysfs_hash_and_remove. > > The error handling if thinkpad_acpi_module_init() fails generally looks > suspicious, but this patch at least fixes the common case if no hardware > was found, and it seems in this case there isn't any cleanup > actually required. > > Broken by commit d5a2f2f1d68e2da538ac28540cddd9ccc733b001. > > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx> NAK Proper fix already sent to Len Brown, and already queued to be pulled by Linus. Len, that'd be "ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix the module init failure path", http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/24413 -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
