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Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 12:27:38 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Kristen Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] acpiphp: treat dck separate from dock bridge
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Hi!
On P? 20-01-06 17:55:06, Kristen Accardi wrote:
> Here's an addition to the acpiphp dock station patch for interested
> people to try.  It has a problem that I've not solved yet that will
> cause the driver to oops if you boot your laptop docked, then load the
> driver, then try to undock.  But, it works for me if you boot undocked,
> then load the driver, then dock/undock etc.  This patch is different
> from the original in that I no longer assume that _DCK is defined under
> the actual p2p dock bridge.  However, the solution I came up with is not
> actually very good.  I have to somehow find out which device is the
> actual p2p bridge, and what I try to do here is:
> 1) find the device that _DCK is defined under
> 2) if this is a bridged device, we are done (i.e. is has _ADR and is
> ejectable)
> 3) if not, then walk the namespace looking for _EJD.  If you find one,
> see if the dependency is on the dock device.  The dock bridge should be
> dependent on the dock device.  
> 
> 	- when you find something that is dependent on the dock device,
> 	  see if it has an _ADR and a _PRT entry.  If so, then it is the
> 	  p2p dock bridge.
> 
> So, this is likely a wrong assumption, so I will be thinking some more
> about how to tell which acpi device is the dock bridge.  But meanwhile,
> this patch could be tested/reviewed to see if it gets us a step further
> in the right direction.
> 
> I patched against 2.6.16-rc1-mm2 because I wasn't sure if it was safe to
> just drop my other patch (since actually trying to just revert the
> broken out patch didn't actually work).  So this patches the file with
> my original patch applied.

It oopsed on me while insmoding it: ... will try to investigate.

root@amd:/data/l/linux-mm/drivers/pci/hotplug# insmod acpiphp.ko
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000044
 printing eip:
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
last sysfs file: /devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Modules linked in: acpiphp
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<f9990d20>]    Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.16-rc1-mm2 #2)
EIP is at acpiphp_get_power_status+0x0/0x10 [acpiphp]
eax: 00000000   ebx: f796bbe0   ecx: f9995384   edx: f7edc2c0
esi: f796bca0   edi: 00000014   ebp: f9992c35   esp: f7b35e14
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process insmod (pid: 1520, threadinfo=f7b34000 task=c1f36a50)
Stack: <0>f887e13a f9992e5c f9992c18 00000246 22222222 fffffff4 00000000 f784e000
       f784e4ac f784e4d0 f9995380 c0135636 f99953c8 c05be852 f999538c 00000008
       00000000 f999538c 0000001c 00000018 0000001c 00000018 f998bba8 f998ba90
Call Trace:
 [<f887e13a>] acpiphp_init+0x13a/0x290 [acpiphp]
 [<c0135636>] sys_init_module+0x146/0x1630
 [<c010f1b0>] acpi_register_ioapic+0x0/0x10
 [<c013fd87>] generic_file_aio_read+0x47/0x70
 [<c0168b93>] open_namei+0x83/0x560
 [<c012e930>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
 [<c014d544>] do_brk+0x204/0x210
 [<c016f4fa>] dput_recursive+0x2a/0x1d0
 [<c015a891>] __fput+0xe1/0x140
 [<c017304b>] mntput_no_expire+0x1b/0x70
 [<c0102d1d>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: b9 ff ff ff ff b8 06 00 00 00 89 74 24 08 89 5c 24 04 c7 04 24 f0 0a 99 f9 e8 a6 f0 90 c6 8b 54 24 0c eb 9a 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 <0f> b6 40 44 83 e0 01 c3 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 e8 fb fc ff ff
 Segmentation fault
root@amd:/data/l/linux-mm/drivers/pci/hotplug#


-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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