The following reply was made to PR kern/162491; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Andriy Gapon <[email protected]> To: Jaakko Heinonen <[email protected]> Cc: Alexey Slynko <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: kern/162491: EliteBook 8540p panic on acpi_hp module loading Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:35:19 +0200 on 13/11/2011 09:49 Jaakko Heinonen said the following: > On 2011-11-11, Alexey Slynko wrote: >> My EliteBook 8540p panic on boot after upgrade to 9.0-RC1. I've tried >> to unload all kernel modules and load it manually. It was crashed on >> acpi_hp loading: > >> acpi_wmi0: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0 >> acpi_wmi1: <ACPI-WMI mapping> on acpi0 >> panic: make_dev_credv: bad si_name (error=17, si_name=wmistat) > > I don't really know much about acpi_wmi(4) but obviously it tries to > create /dev/wmistat twice here. I am not sure if it's legitimate to have > several wmistat device files but you could try this patch: I think that this is the most appropriate patch, thank you! I don't know of any actual usage for /dev/wmistat devices in userland besides cat-ing them and staring in awe at a bunch of GUID strings :-) -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
