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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
To: Joerg Platte <jplatte@naasa.net>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.30] Kernel bug with dock driver
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:10:20 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090618221020.GA2979@khazad-dum.debian.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906182322.54566.jplatte@naasa.net>

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Wednesday, 17. June 2009 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > If it causes a NULL derreference, it means someone has changed API and did
> > NOT change all callsites.  It is that simple.
> >
> thinkpad_acpi: dev_name() is returning NULL

There it is.  "Someone set us up the bomb."

> Hope it helps...

Yes, it does.  Thank you.  Now at least I know what to look for.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-18 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-14 19:00 [2.6.30] Kernel bug with dock driver Joerg Platte
2009-06-15  2:02 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-06-15  7:36   ` Joerg Platte
2009-06-15 20:29     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-06-16  9:24       ` Joerg Platte
2009-06-17 12:34         ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2009-06-18 21:22           ` Joerg Platte
2009-06-18 22:10             ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [this message]
2009-06-17  7:13 ` Zhang Rui
2009-06-18 21:26   ` Joerg Platte
2009-06-18 22:12     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

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