Re: 2.6.24-rc1: OOPS at acpi_battery_update

[Andrew Morton]

A> On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:35:23 +0300 Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> [remove_cycle_at_battery_removal.patch  text/x-patch (1.7KB)]
> ACPI: Battery: remove cycle from battery removal.
> 
> From: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx>
> 
> get_property() should not call battery_update() on absent battery to
> avoid cycle and oops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@xxxxxxx>
> Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>

A patch similar to this one but with an identical changelog was merged into
Len's tree on November 2.

If it had been promptly merged into mainline then quite a lot of people's
time would not have been wasted.

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