From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758910AbZBMQXJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:23:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752350AbZBMQW4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:22:56 -0500 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.123]:59508 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752334AbZBMQWz (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:22:55 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:22:52 -0600 From: David Engel To: Michael Tokarev Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.27.17 Message-ID: <20090213162252.GA17121@opus.istwok.net> References: <20090213013157.GA14377@kroah.com> <49952552.6040000@msgid.tls.msk.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49952552.6040000@msgid.tls.msk.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:46:26AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Here's the announcement of the 2.6.27.17 kernel. > > > > It reverts one patch in the 2.6.27.16 kernel release, which caused an > > instant oops if you happened to have a laptop with a docking station. > > Many thanks to David Engel for pointing out the problem. > > > Greg Kroah-Hartman (2): > > Revert "ACPI: dock: Don't eval _STA on every show_docked sysfs read" > > Linux 2.6.27.17 > > I wonder if the same should be done with 2.6.28.5... I haven't updated most of my systems to 2.6.28 yet. I just gave 2.6.28.5 a try on my laptop, though. It does not have the show_docked oops I had with 2.6.27.16. David -- David Engel david@istwok.net