Re: Possible dcache BUG

[Udo A. Steinberg]

On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 00:16:26 -0700 Andrew Morton (AM) wrote:

AM> Random guess: acpi_evaluate_object() is returning an error but is
AM> allocating memory anyway.
AM> 
AM> In acpi_battery_get_status():
AM> 
AM> 	status = acpi_evaluate_object(battery->handle, "_BST", NULL, &buffer);
AM> 	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
AM> 		ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT((ACPI_DB_ERROR, "Error evaluating _BST\n"));
AM> 		return_VALUE(-ENODEV);
AM> 	}
AM> 
AM> Is that failure path being taken?

Is there a way for me to find that out without recompiling and rebooting?

-Udo.

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