On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:17 PM Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 03:38:15PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 1:16 PM <malattia@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> > > > > > > The thermal handle object may fail initialization when the module is > > > loaded the first time. > > > > > > > But isn't it a papering over the real issue that it fails first time? > > AFAIU user needs to try first time and if it fails to try again. Can > > we rather understand the root cause first? > > I think this is a bug regardless of what ACPICA does. I didn't speak about ACPICA. > If the driver fails completing whatever initialization, should it not > avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer on resume? Yes, but *why* it fails? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko