Re: kernel problem 2.6.33-rc2

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:18:57 -0500 (EST) Len Brown wrote:

> > dell_wmi_init
> 
> Please try this patch.
> 
> From d11e073ee3e3091d9190dace97ce480e960cca1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 23:14:26 -0500
> Subject: [PATCH] Revert "wmi: Free the allocated acpi objects through wmi_get_event_data"
> X-Patchwork-Hint: ignore
> 
> This reverts commit 3e9b988e4edf065d39c1343937f717319b1c1065.
> 
> Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
> Tested-by Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c |    1 -
>  drivers/platform/x86/hp-wmi.c   |    2 --
>  drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c      |    4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> index 9f93d6c..e425a86 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> @@ -540,8 +540,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wmi_remove_notify_handler);
>  /**
>   * wmi_get_event_data - Get WMI data associated with an event
>   *
> - * @event: Event to find
> - * @out: Buffer to hold event data. out->pointer should be freed with kfree()
> + * @event - Event to find
> + * &out - Buffer to hold event data

The '+' kernel-doc formatting is incorrect.
Needs to use ':'s and @out.


>   *
>   * Returns extra data associated with an event in WMI.
>   */


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~Randy