On 7/7/05, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 12:09:00PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Yes. Except that if hwif is NULL, we'll have other oopses since we access > > > that in other places. > > > > > > Why _is_ hwif NULL anyway? That's another, unrelated thing, and should > > > probably have a separate check and an early return. > > > > I was wondering about that one as well. Andi brought it up. > > I don't know why hwif was NULL, but my kernel definitely crashed. > hwif was NULL in the first function (I first misread the oops > and thought it was pci_dev NULL, but it wasn't). For the second > I didn't verify it was hwif or pci_dev NULL, but one of them > was too. > > The setup was a Intel board with 1 PATA/4 SATA onboard and only a CD-ROM > and a external Promise PATA controller with two PATA disks.
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