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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25 regression/oops on boot (ACPI related?)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:01:33 +0100
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On Monday, 10 of March 2008, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 03:27:06PM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:38:54AM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 15:54 +0800, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:20:27AM +0800, Zhang, Rui wrote:
> > > > > Please attach the acpidump output using the latest pmtools at :
> > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/utils/
> > > > > Please attach the result of "cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*" as
> > > > well.
> > > > 
> > > > I've attached the output of acpidump. The cat results in this output:
> > > > 
> > > > [noodles@meepok /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM]$ cat *
> > > > 0 - Active; 1 - Passive
> > > > <polling disabled>
> > > > state:                   ok
> > > > temperature:             40 C
> > > > Segmentation fault
> > > > 
> > > > It also causes a general protection fault, which I've attached as
> > > > well.
> > > > 
> > > > This is a stock Debian kernel:
> > > > 
> > > > Linux meepok 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 13:47:43 UTC 2008 x86_64
> > > > GNU/Linux
> > > > 
> > > > I have a patch from Ming Lin to try out but it'll have to wait until
> > > > tomorrow before I can do so.
> > > > 
> > > We've root caused the problem and Lin Ming's patch should work for you.
> > > Please give it a try. :)
> > 
> > I've now done so; it fixes my problem and 2.6.25-rc3 boots fine with it
> > applied. Thanks.
> 
> Is there a reason this still hasn't made it into 2.6.25-rc5?

Well, I guess Len was unaware of it (CCed now).

Thanks,
Rafael
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