Re: -tip: origin tree boot crash

From: Len Brown
Date: Sat Dec 26 2009 - 15:18:24 EST


> [ 28.643216] evbug.c: Connected device: input1 (Dell WMI hotkeys at wmi/input0)
> [ 28.650449] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000014
> [ 28.654439] IP: [<c17f7f21>] wmi_install_notify_handler+0x31/0x70

Rather than reverting the broken patch that caused wmi to load,
does applying this patch to deal with the broken error handling
cause the oops to go away?

thanks,
-Len