Re: 2.4.20-rc1: oops in drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c (with pat

[H. Peter Anvin]

Grover, Andrew wrote:
>>From: H. Peter Anvin [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> 
> 
>>I have one machine which has been reliably oopsing in 
>>drivers/acpi/namespace/nswalk.c -- this patch makes it work, 
>>but I have 
>>no idea why.  Either way, I thought someone would probably 
>>want to look 
>>at it.
> 
> 
> Is this reproducible in 2.5.latest? If not, then it's fixed in the 2.4 ACPI
> patch and is just awaiting merge.
> 

I don't know.

In fact, I have found that apparently there is a worse ACPI regression 
between 2.4.20-pre5 and 2.4.20-rc1; I have one machine here which does 
not work without ACPI (because of broken PCI tables -- that's what you 
get for duplicating data), and -pre5 works on it and -rc1 doesn't.

I will try 2.5.<latest> when I get home this evening.

	-hpa