Re: 2.6.24-rc1: OOPS at acpi_battery_update

[Alexey Starikovskiy]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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.
Andrew,
should I send such patches directly to you/Linus?

Regards,
Alex
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