Hi!
On Pá 20-01-06 17:55:06, Kristen Accardi wrote:
> Here's an addition to the acpiphp dock station patch for interested
> people to try. It has a problem that I've not solved yet that will
> cause the driver to oops if you boot your laptop docked, then load the
> driver, then try to undock. But, it works for me if you boot undocked,
> then load the driver, then dock/undock etc. This patch is different
> from the original in that I no longer assume that _DCK is defined under
> the actual p2p dock bridge. However, the solution I came up with is not
> actually very good. I have to somehow find out which device is the
> actual p2p bridge, and what I try to do here is:
> 1) find the device that _DCK is defined under
> 2) if this is a bridged device, we are done (i.e. is has _ADR and is
> ejectable)
> 3) if not, then walk the namespace looking for _EJD. If you find one,
> see if the dependency is on the dock device. The dock bridge should be
> dependent on the dock device.
>
> - when you find something that is dependent on the dock device,
> see if it has an _ADR and a _PRT entry. If so, then it is the
> p2p dock bridge.
>
> So, this is likely a wrong assumption, so I will be thinking some more
> about how to tell which acpi device is the dock bridge. But meanwhile,
> this patch could be tested/reviewed to see if it gets us a step further
> in the right direction.
>
> I patched against 2.6.16-rc1-mm2 because I wasn't sure if it was safe to
> just drop my other patch (since actually trying to just revert the
> broken out patch didn't actually work). So this patches the file with
> my original patch applied.
It oopsed on me while insmoding it: ... will try to investigate.
root@amd:/data/l/linux-mm/drivers/pci/hotplug# insmod acpiphp.ko
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000044
printing eip:
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
last sysfs file: /devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor
Modules linked in: acpiphp
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<f9990d20>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.16-rc1-mm2 #2)
EIP is at acpiphp_get_power_status+0x0/0x10 [acpiphp]
eax: 00000000 ebx: f796bbe0 ecx: f9995384 edx: f7edc2c0
esi: f796bca0 edi: 00000014 ebp: f9992c35 esp: f7b35e14
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process insmod (pid: 1520, threadinfo=f7b34000 task=c1f36a50)
Stack: <0>f887e13a f9992e5c f9992c18 00000246 22222222 fffffff4 00000000 f784e000
f784e4ac f784e4d0 f9995380 c0135636 f99953c8 c05be852 f999538c 00000008
00000000 f999538c 0000001c 00000018 0000001c 00000018 f998bba8 f998ba90
Call Trace:
[<f887e13a>] acpiphp_init+0x13a/0x290 [acpiphp]
[<c0135636>] sys_init_module+0x146/0x1630
[<c010f1b0>] acpi_register_ioapic+0x0/0x10
[<c013fd87>] generic_file_aio_read+0x47/0x70
[<c0168b93>] open_namei+0x83/0x560
[<c012e930>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50
[<c014d544>] do_brk+0x204/0x210
[<c016f4fa>] dput_recursive+0x2a/0x1d0
[<c015a891>] __fput+0xe1/0x140
[<c017304b>] mntput_no_expire+0x1b/0x70
[<c0102d1d>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: b9 ff ff ff ff b8 06 00 00 00 89 74 24 08 89 5c 24 04 c7 04 24 f0 0a 99 f9 e8 a6 f0 90 c6 8b 54 24 0c eb 9a 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 <0f> b6 40 44 83 e0 01 c3 90 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 e8 fb fc ff ff
Segmentation fault
root@amd:/data/l/linux-mm/drivers/pci/hotplug#
--
Thanks, Sharp!
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