On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 18:13, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Friday 12 August 2005 1:44 pm, Peter Martuccelli wrote:
> > Stumbled into this problem working on the ipmi_si driver. When the
> > ipmi_si driver initialization fails the acpi_tb_get_table
> > call, after rsdt_info has been allocated, acpi_get_firmware_table()
> > will oops trying to reference off rsdt_info->pointer in the cleanup
> > code.
>
> I don't know whether the ACPI patch is correct or desirable, but
> I think the ipmi_si ACPI discovery is bogus (it was probably
> written before the current ACPI and PNPACPI driver registration
> interfaces were stable).
>
> Currently, ipmi_si uses the static SPMI table to locate the
> device. But the static table should only be used if we need
> the device very early, before the ACPI namespace is available.
>
> I don't think we use the device early, so we should use
> pnp_register_driver() to claim the appropriate PNP IDs.
> Or we might have to use acpi_bus_register_driver() since
> it looks like it uses ACPI-specific features like GPEs.
Adding in Corey to the discussion regarding ipmi_si initialization,
waiting on Len to decide on the ACPI fix.
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