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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
	Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
	Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 20/23] ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:23:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081113212305.GA5697@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081111121607.GA32066@homac.suse.de>

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:16:07PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Fri 07. Nov - 15:16:06, Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.26-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> Objecting. This will only work in conjunction with
> 
>   commit 39a0ad871000d2a016a4fa113a6e53d22aabf25d
>   Author: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
>   Date:   Mon Aug 11 13:40:22 2008 +0800
> 
>       ACPI : Load device driver according to the status of acpi device
> 
> Otherwise a device struct already exists although the device is not
> present.

So do you feel we should also add this patch to the 2.6.27-stable tree
to solve this issue?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-13 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20081107224818.593212310@mini.kroah.org>
     [not found] ` <20081107231457.GA1108@kroah.com>
2008-11-07 23:15   ` [patch 09/23] ACPI: Always report a sync event after a lid state change Greg KH
2008-11-07 23:16   ` [patch 20/23] ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method Greg KH
2008-11-11 12:16     ` Holger Macht
2008-11-13 21:23       ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-11-16 23:36         ` [stable] " Holger Macht
2008-11-17  4:59           ` Greg KH

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