On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 06:36:47PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.26-1
> Forwarded: corenti...@iksaif.net, acpi4asus-u...@lists.sourceforge.net,
> linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org
> Tags: patch
>
> I was adjusting my EeePC 901's display brightness via Fn-F3 while it was
> starting up. By coincidence, it happened to be initialising the eeepc-laptop
> module, and an oops was logged. Investigation pointed to a NULL dereference;
> a case of use-before-init.
>
> (I'm using 2.6.28.1 with eeepc-laptop compiled in, but inspection of the
> 2.6.26 source indicates that the problem is there too.)
>
> Patch at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/28/262
Merged in SVN for next Lenny point update.
Cheers,
Moritz
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