Bug 14060

Summary:	oops: sysfs_remove_link and i915
Product:	ACPI	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjw)
Component:	Power-Video	Assignee:	Zhang Rui (rui.zhang)
Status:	CLOSED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	normal	CC:	lenb, linux, yakui.zhao
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.31-rc7	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	13615

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-08-25 22:23:04 UTC

Subject    : oops: sysfs_remove_link, i915 and 2.6.31-rc7
Submitter  : Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Date       : 2009-08-22 5:48
References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=125092139113955&w=4

This entry is being used for tracking a regression from 2.6.30.  Please don't
close it until the problem is fixed in the mainline.

Comment 1 Zhang Rui 2009-08-26 01:31:49 UTC

the bug should be fixed by http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/39704/

Rafael, please ask Dominik to try the patch. :)

Comment 2 ykzhao 2009-08-26 15:04:18 UTC

I can reproduce this issue on one box. And I can confirm that the issue can be fixed by the patch in http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/39704/.
thanks.

Comment 3 Dominik Brodowski 2009-08-26 20:45:57 UTC

Tried the patch, and it fixes the oops.

Comment 4 Rafael J. Wysocki 2009-08-26 21:27:11 UTC

Handled-By : Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Patch : http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/39704/

Comment 5 Len Brown 2009-08-30 03:34:40 UTC

e29b3ee3b005897fbdcfdd4b3190776e38739d70
ACPI: don't free non-existent backlight in acpi video module

shipped in v2.6.31-rc8

closed.