Re: 2.6.2-rc2-bk1 oopses on boot (ACPI patch)

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Jan 27 2004 - 22:13:51 EST




On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> Divide by zero. Looks like ACPI is now passing bad values into the
> frequency change notifier.
>
> Does this make the oops go away?

Other values will still cause divide-by-zero (any divisor in 0..9 will do
it). Besides, we're dividing with _old_, not new, so that's the one we
should likely check.

Linus
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