Re: Linux 2.6.27.17

From: David Engel
Date: Fri Feb 13 2009 - 11:23:11 EST


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:46:26AM +0300, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > Here's the announcement of the 2.6.27.17 kernel.
> >
> > It reverts one patch in the 2.6.27.16 kernel release, which caused an
> > instant oops if you happened to have a laptop with a docking station.
> > Many thanks to David Engel for pointing out the problem.
>
> > Greg Kroah-Hartman (2):
> > Revert "ACPI: dock: Don't eval _STA on every show_docked sysfs read"
> > Linux 2.6.27.17
>
> I wonder if the same should be done with 2.6.28.5...

I haven't updated most of my systems to 2.6.28 yet. I just gave
2.6.28.5 a try on my laptop, though. It does not have the show_docked
oops I had with 2.6.27.16.

David
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