Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 09:40:08 GMT From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/162491: EliteBook 8540p panic on acpi_hp module loading Message-ID: <201111130940.pAD9e84B022816@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/162491; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Alexey Slynko <slynko@tronet.ru>, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org 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
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