Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 1/4] thinkpad-acpi: disable broken bay and dock subdrivers

2009-08-01 Thread Len Brown
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[ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 1/4] thinkpad-acpi: disable broken bay and dock subdrivers

2009-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Currently, the ThinkPad-ACPI bay and dock drivers are completely broken, and cause a NULL pointer derreference in kernel mode (and, therefore, an OOPS) when they try to issue events (i.e. on dock, undock, bay ejection, etc). OTOH, the standard ACPI dock driver can handle the hotplug bays and docks