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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 12:43:14 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [patch 00/16] Linux 2.6.25 -stable review
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On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 03:16:28PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> On Thursday 08 May 2008, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:22:33AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:13:42PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > > > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 10:41:22AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.25.2 release.
> > > > > There are 16 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
> > > > > this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let
> > > > > us know.  If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants
> > > > > to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.
> > > > 
> > > > Greg, shouldn't we also queue this one (may be in a later version) ? It's
> > > > in mainline.
> > > 
> > > What problem does it solve?
> > 
> > from what I see in the code, currently acpi_power_get_state() will return
> > 0 when setting resource to NULL, and some callers (eg: acpi_power_on())
> > will happily dereference resource if acpi_power_get_state() returns 0. So
> > I guess there are circumstances where we can oops.
> > 
> > > Does Len want it in -stable?
> > 
> > I simply forgot to ask. I'm CCing him.
> 
> This patch is correct.
> 
> Go ahead and apply it -- it won't hurt anything.
> I don't think it will help anything in real-life either, though.

Ok, because of that, I'll not apply it, we want patches that actually
fix reported problems.

thanks,

greg k-h