Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:36:02 +0100
From: Holger Macht <hmacht@suse.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org,
       Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
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       Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [patch 20/23] ACPI: dock: avoid check _STA method
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On Thu 13. Nov - 13:23:05, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I think so.

Regards,
	Holger
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