Subject: Re: Next May 13:[drivers/base/firmware*] Bug while booting on x86

From: Sachin Sant <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 11:01:54 +0530

Sachin Sant wrote:
> Call Trace:
> [<c02f417c>] ? firmware_data_write+0x1cb/0x211
> [<c02f3fb1>] ? firmware_data_write+0x0/0x211
> [<c01e618a>] ? write+0x113/0x14a
Could be because of the following patch which last changed the
code in question.

firmware: speed up request_firmware()
http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/17531/

I will try reverting this patch and check if that helps.

thanks
-Sachin

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Sachin Sant
IBM Linux Technology Center
India Systems and Technology Labs
Bangalore, India
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