From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1: OOPS at acpi_battery_update Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:34:51 -0800 Message-ID: <20071108203451.1b7f28c0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1193652664.22149.4.camel@localhost> <200711050118.34610.rjw@sisk.pl> <20071108155344.GA12231@cataract> <200711081717.00421.rjw@sisk.pl> <47333ACB.6070408@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:47349 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753190AbXKIEfg (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Nov 2007 23:35:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <47333ACB.6070408@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alexey Starikovskiy Cc: rjw@sisk.pl, hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de, listen@selfservix.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown A> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:35:23 +0300 Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > [remove_cycle_at_battery_removal.patch text/x-patch (1.7KB)] > ACPI: Battery: remove cycle from battery removal. > > From: Alexey Starikovskiy > > get_property() should not call battery_update() on absent battery to > avoid cycle and oops. > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy > Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer A patch similar to this one but with an identical changelog was merged into Len's tree on November 2. If it had been promptly merged into mainline then quite a lot of people's time would not have been wasted.