Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix LED handling on older ThinkPads

2008-06-03 Thread Len Brown
oh i see -- i had a conflict b/c i applied this to a branch which didn't have the recent upstream const patch. applied. thanks, -len - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell servi

Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix LED handling on older ThinkPads

2008-06-03 Thread Len Brown
this one didn't apply on top of the other two? On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > The less tested codepaths for LED handling, used on ThinkPads 570, 600e/x, > 770e, 770x, A21e, A2xm/p, T20-22, X20 and maybe a few others, would write > data to kernel memory it had no business

[ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH 3/3] ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix LED handling on older ThinkPads

2008-06-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
The less tested codepaths for LED handling, used on ThinkPads 570, 600e/x, 770e, 770x, A21e, A2xm/p, T20-22, X20 and maybe a few others, would write data to kernel memory it had no business touching, for leds number 3 and above. If one is lucky, that illegal write would cause an OOPS, but chances