Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754732Ab0L3BR3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:17:29 -0500 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:48521 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754218Ab0L3BR2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:17:28 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.60,247,1291622400"; d="scan'208";a="641602145" Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.37-rc8 From: Zhang Rui To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Borislav Petkov , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Brown, Len" In-Reply-To: <201012291308.58676.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <20101229111840.GA13498@a1.tnic> <201012291308.58676.rjw@sisk.pl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 09:17:23 +0800 Message-ID: <1293671843.1698.12.camel@rui> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1598 Lines: 41 On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 20:08 +0800, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Wednesday, December 29, 2010, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 05:18:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Another week, another -rc. This should be the last for the 37 series, > > > > There's also the issue with oopsing when physically removing the battery > > from the system. I have a proposed fix but no acks/nacks from ACPI guys > > yet: > > > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/418751/ > > The commit causing this problem has been reverted: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=cde44d1740bcb3dcfecbf792a71826431e61686e > > Which means that the problem it attepmted to address is back. > Right. After discussion with Len, we agreed that the real problem is that we should not probe/unprobe power_supply class device in acpi_battery_update. And we also agreed on reverting that commit for now, and rewriting the battery driver, sometime in Q1 2011, with the problem fixed. Sorry that I didn't update this in the mailing list. thanks, rui > Thanks, > Rafael > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/