From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Fix oops in acer_wmi
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 02:19:41 +0100
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On Saturday 23 August 2008 22:05:09 Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> this is due to a null pointer due to a misordered initialization...
> when the DMI quirks get run, the "interface" variable might not have been
> initialized. The patch below 1) prevents the oops and 2) runs the quirks
> again after all the "interface" initialization has completed.

Acked-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>

(Although this patch is missing an SOB from yourself).

> This oops is new in 2.6.27-rc and thus counts as a regression...

NAK - I disagree. This has been broken since day one, there is nothing 
special, as far as I am concerned, about 2.6.27 in this respect.

(If this is showing up that much in kerneloops.org, then I would recommend 
CC'ing it to stable).

-Carlos
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