Hi Len, the first patch fixes a memory corruption in ACPICA. Memory corruption should legitimate this as 2.6.25-rc5 material (also because this looks rather safe to do and seem to pop up on a lot recent BIOS updates). The second patch catches the NULL pointer which is passed on evaluate_reference now, instead of a corrupted pointer. The third patch tells the user that his BIOS has an invalid reference as a passive cooling device (the invalid reference is the NULL handle now). I have checked this working (ran into the corrupted memory and NULL pointer) by invalidating a passive trip point and simulate the broken ASUS BIOSes by overriding a DSDT on another system. The first report which verifies the patches working with a 2.6.24 kernel patched on a real broken ASUS Bios can be found here: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=350017 Comment #40: "Works on the Asus M2N-E and M2A VM HDMI." Thanks, Thomas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
