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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 20/23] ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:16:07PM +0100, Holger Macht wrote:
> On Fri 07. Nov - 15:16:06, Greg KH wrote:
> > 2.6.26-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> 
> Objecting. This will only work in conjunction with
> 
>   commit 39a0ad871000d2a016a4fa113a6e53d22aabf25d
>   Author: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
>   Date:   Mon Aug 11 13:40:22 2008 +0800
> 
>       ACPI : Load device driver according to the status of acpi device
> 
> Otherwise a device struct already exists although the device is not
> present.

So do you feel we should also add this patch to the 2.6.27-stable tree
to solve this issue?

thanks,

greg k-h
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