From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261914AbTJ2IJ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:09:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261893AbTJ2IJ6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:09:58 -0500 Received: from fmr04.intel.com ([143.183.121.6]:22973 "EHLO caduceus.sc.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261914AbTJ2IJ4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 03:09:56 -0500 Subject: [BK PATCH] ACPI 2.4 From: Len Brown To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Kernel Mailing List , ACPI Developers Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1067414953.15257.17.camel@dhcppc4> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 Date: 29 Oct 2003 03:09:14 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Marcelo, please do a bk pull http://linux-acpi.bkbits.net/linux-acpi-release-2.4.23 This request includes the earlier x86_64 ACPI build fix, plus fixes two crash regressions due to recent deltas, plus picks up Andrew Morton's tweak to printk from 2.6. thanks, -Len ps. a plain patch is also available here: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/release/2.4.23-pre8/acpi-20031002-2.4.23-pre8.diff.gz This will update the following files: arch/x86_64/kernel/acpi.c | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/acpi/dispatcher/dsopcode.c | 8 ++---- drivers/acpi/ec.c | 16 +------------ lib/vsprintf.c | 3 +- 4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) through these ChangeSets: (03/10/28 1.1063.44.35) [PATCH] make printk more robust with "null" pointers Expand printk's traditional handling of null pointers so that anything in the first page is considered a null pointer. This gives us better behaviour when someone (acpi..) accidentally prints a string which is embedded in a struct, the pointer to which is null. (03/10/28 1.1063.44.34) [ACPI] REVERT ACPICA-20030918 CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG printk that caused crash http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1341 (03/10/28 1.1063.44.33) [ACPI] REVERT acpi_ec_gpe_query(ec) T40 fix that crashed other boxes http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1171 (03/10/28 1.1063.44.32) [ACPI] fix x86_64 build (Jeff Garzik)