Marek Vasut wrote:

On Thursday, June 23, 2011 06:09:40 PM Stanislav Brabec wrote:

quoted

Hallo.

These Oops and kernel panic were observed on a Zaurus (spitz) machine
(ARMv5, PXA270).

Looks similar to "Re: [PATCH v2] Input: Make ADS7846 independent on regulator"

I don't see any trace in that thread. But yes, I was testing your patch
from this thread. Without it, ADS7846 does not work on spitz (ADS7846
does not have any dedicated regulator there). I want to
add .needs_regulator bool to ads7846.c and send the patch again to the
list.

After sending the trace I was able to reproduced it several times by
attaching of external charger.

Then I tried to apply "[PATCH] MAX1111: Fix race condition causing NULL
pointer exception", connected charger that periodically disconnects and
not seen the crash again. No OOPS was seen after ~100 reconnects.

So I guess that MAX1111 AC voltage reading (via SPI) was involved in an
incorrect moment and race happened there and your MAX1111 race condition
fix fixes it.

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