Bug#509338: Correction to "NULL pointer dereference in psmouse"

[maximilian attems <max@stro.at>]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Joachim Breitner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag, den 25.07.2009, 16:48 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> > Am Samstag, den 25.07.2009, 15:13 +0200 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 02:51:47PM +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > > correction: I had 
> > > > # echo -n alsp > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/protocol
> > > > in place. I???ll update this if it also happens with synaptics as the
> > > > protocol.
> > > 
> > > Does this error still persist with more recent kernels?
> > 
> > I still have the problem described in 
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8740
> > (e.g. if I have touchpad and trackpoint enabled, the mouse hangs
> > regularly). I now enabled touchpad and trackpoint, set the protocol as
> > above, but no crash occured so far.
> 
> shortly after the mail, it occurred. Neither keyboad nor mouse input was
> accepted. I SSHed into the machine and stored the output of dmesg,
> attached.

how is the status with 2.6.32 ?
(preferably test against unstable linux image, has more fixes)

thanks for feedback