Currently, the ThinkPad-ACPI bay and dock drivers are completely broken, and cause a NULL pointer derreference in kernel mode (and, therefore, an OOPS) when they try to issue events (i.e. on dock, undock, bay ejection, etc). OTOH, the standard ACPI dock driver can handle the hotplug bays and docks of the ThinkPads just fine (including batteries) as of 2.6.27. In fact, it does a much better job of it than thinkpad-acpi ever did. It is just not worth the hassle to find a way to fix this crap without breaking the (deprecated) thinkpad-acpi dock/bay ABI. This is old, deprecated code that sees little testing or use. As a quick fix suitable for -stable backports, mark the thinkpad-acpi bay and dock subdrivers as BROKEN in Kconfig. The dead code will be removed by a later patch. This fixes bugzilla #13669, and should be applied to 2.6.27 and later. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Joerg Platte <jplatte@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 4 +++- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig index 46dad12..6335f63 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ config THINKPAD_ACPI_DOCK bool "Legacy Docking Station Support" depends on THINKPAD_ACPI depends on ACPI_DOCK=n + depends on BROKEN default n ---help--- Allows the thinkpad_acpi driver to handle docking station events. @@ -294,7 +295,8 @@ config THINKPAD_ACPI_DOCK config THINKPAD_ACPI_BAY bool "Legacy Removable Bay Support" depends on THINKPAD_ACPI - default y + depends on BROKEN + default n ---help--- Allows the thinkpad_acpi driver to handle removable bays. It will electrically disable the device in the bay, and also generate -- 1.6.2.4 -- 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
