2.6.17-rc4-mm3 - kernel panic

Hello Kristen,

does it make sense for me to patch? I meen, if you want me to dmesg, I need a clean boot. But the panic occurs on boot. Since your patch makes nothing but logging, this makes less sense for me. And what is that dock thing, could my WOL on S3 and NIC problem also have something to do with that?

Btw.: Len, I've compiled the 2.6.16.18 kernel last night, with and without your latest acpi-release. The result was, with patch the system woke up one time and the second time it died, without your patch the system died the very first time sending a magic packet. Funny, but keyboard and powerbutton are always working.

Regards,

Andreas

The patch should prevent the oops if the problem is that the dock_station structure is not initialized. It does this by checking for a NULL dock_station pointer and returning rather than dereferencing it. So, if this is the cause of the oops, we will know because your system will boot, and you will be able to get the dmesg. So, if you could try using the patch and reporting back either way, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks,
Kristen