Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265832AbUA1DMc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:12:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265836AbUA1DMc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:12:32 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:21972 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265832AbUA1DMb (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:12:31 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:10:02 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Andrew Morton cc: Alessandro Suardi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@intel.com Subject: Re: 2.6.2-rc2-bk1 oopses on boot (ACPI patch) In-Reply-To: <20040127184228.3a0b8a86.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <40171B5B.4020601@oracle.com> <20040127184228.3a0b8a86.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 606 Lines: 19 On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Divide by zero. Looks like ACPI is now passing bad values into the > frequency change notifier. > > Does this make the oops go away? Other values will still cause divide-by-zero (any divisor in 0..9 will do it). Besides, we're dividing with _old_, not new, so that's the one we should likely check. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/