Re: Regression: Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed at booton HP 6730B - bisected

[Roberto Oppedisano]

Hi

Il 11/03/2013 09:00, Roberto Oppedisano ha scritto:
> Hello
>     I'm observing this kind of boot failure when my laptop
> is not docked; I didn't notice before because I seldom reboot
> it when it's not connected to a docking station.
>
> The failure is reproducible at 80-90%, meaning that one boot
> over 8-10 will complete also with the laptop undocked; it seems
> that being attached to a power supply (via jack, not docking) or
> on batteries makes no difference WRT this failure.

following the results of a bisection:

b17b537ac1429a609addb55bf985f5ebfcf4ae7b is the first bad commit
commit b17b537ac1429a609addb55bf985f5ebfcf4ae7b
Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Tue Jan 15 13:23:44 2013 +0100

    ACPI / scan: Drop the second argument of acpi_device_unregister()

    Drop the second argument of acpi_device_unregister(), type, which is
    not used by that function.

    Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
    Acked-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

:040000 040000 13aeb8bccbd062e65bc3710bb426fe8ac7d0cad5 
17d4603977ea57133d149814dc34e274ca0c2deb M      drivers

Trying to revert this commit on current master gave me an error.

Let me know if you need more info or testing.

R

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