The patch titled
acer-wmi: fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
acer-wmi-fail-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled.patch
This patch was dropped because it is obsolete
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: acer-wmi: fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled
From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
WMI drivers, like their ACPI counterparts, should also check if ACPI is
disabled or not, and bail out if so, otherwise we cause a crash.
Spotted by Ingo Molnar.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c~acer-wmi-fail-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c
--- a/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c~acer-wmi-fail-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled
+++ a/drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c
@@ -1038,6 +1038,9 @@ static int __init acer_wmi_init(void)
{
int err;
+ if (acpi_disabled)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
printk(ACER_INFO "Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras version %s\n",
ACER_WMI_VERSION);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
acer-wmi-fail-gracefully-if-acpi-is-disabled.patch
git-acpi.patch
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