On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 05:05:21PM +0000, Schmauss, Erik wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: alexander.le...@verizon.com [mailto:alexander.le...@verizon.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 8:39 AM >> To: Moore, Robert <robert.mo...@intel.com> >> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; sta...@vger.kernel.org; Wysocki, Rafael J >> <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>; Schmauss, Erik <erik.schma...@intel.com> >> Subject: RE: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 01/56] ACPICA: Resources: Not a valid >> resource if buffer length too long >> >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 03:39:22PM +0000, Moore, Robert wrote: >> >> -----Original Message----- >> >> From: alexander.le...@verizon.com >> >> [mailto:alexander.le...@verizon.com] >> >> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 6:46 PM >> >> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; sta...@vger.kernel.org >> >> Cc: Moore, Robert <robert.mo...@intel.com>; Zheng, Lv >> >> <lv.zh...@intel.com>; Wysocki, Rafael J <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com>; >> >> alexander.le...@verizon.com >> >> Subject: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.9 01/56] ACPICA: Resources: Not a valid >> >> resource if buffer length too long >> >> >> >> From: Bob Moore <robert.mo...@intel.com> >> >> >> >> [ Upstream commit 57707a9a7780fab426b8ae9b4c7b65b912a748b3 ] >> >> >> >> ACPICA commit 9f76de2d249b18804e35fb55d14b1c2604d627a1 >> >> ACPICA commit b2e89d72ef1e9deefd63c3fd1dee90f893575b3a >> >> ACPICA commit 23b5bbe6d78afd3c5abf3adb91a1b098a3000b2e >> >> >> >> The declared buffer length must be the same as the length of the byte >> >> initializer list, otherwise not a valid resource descriptor. >> [snip] >> >> >[Moore, Robert] >> > >> >Please explain what you are doing here. >> >> Proposing this commit for the 4.9 LTS tree. > >What problem are you trying to solve with this change? Are you seeing ACPI >errors? If so what are they?
Not seeing an actual problem myself. Was this patch supposed to fix a problem or just deal with a theoretical scenario? -- Thanks, Sasha
