From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:31:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:31:09 -0500 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:63496 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 13:31:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3DCC0474.6010906@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 10:37:40 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, sv MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Grover, Andrew" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Patrick Mochel Subject: Re: 2.4.20-rc1: oops in drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c (with pat ch) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Grover, Andrew wrote: >>From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:hpa@zytor.com] > > >>I have one machine which has been reliably oopsing in >>drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c -- this patch makes it work, >>but I have >>no idea why. Either way, I thought someone would probably >>want to look >>at it. > > > Is this reproducible in 2.5.latest? If not, then it's fixed in the 2.4 ACPI > patch and is just awaiting merge. > I don't know. In fact, I have found that apparently there is a worse ACPI regression between 2.4.20-pre5 and 2.4.20-rc1; I have one machine here which does not work without ACPI (because of broken PCI tables -- that's what you get for duplicating data), and -pre5 works on it and -rc1 doesn't. I will try 2.5. when I get home this evening. -hpa