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Message-Id: <200804292253.45418.bzolnier@gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:53:45 +0200
From:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
To:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	list linux-ide <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide: fix crash at boot with siimage driver

On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > Some change to the IDE layer are causing the siimage driver to crash
> > at boot with a NULL dereference. This is due to the sil_dma_ops not
> > containing all the necessary pointers. I suppose it used to just
> > "override" the defaults while now, it needs to contain everything.
> 
>     Both the patch introducing 'struct ide_dma_ops' into drivers and making 
> them 'const' were in the same batch. However, the latter patch (now commit 
> f37afdaca711838b50ecd89b9c15fc745270d77c) erroneously missed siimage.c -- 
> which I didn't notice when reviewing, sigh...
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>

Applied, thanks for fixing it.

> > ---
> 
> > Index: linux-work/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-work.orig/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c	2008-04-29 14:44:37.000000000 +1000
> > +++ linux-work/drivers/ide/pci/siimage.c	2008-04-29 14:44:44.000000000 +1000
> > @@ -780,7 +780,14 @@ static const struct ide_port_ops sil_sat
> >  };
> >  
> >  static struct ide_dma_ops sil_dma_ops = {
> 
>     Could you please make this 'const' -- the same way as the mentioned commit 
> does in other drivers?

Thanks for noticing, I took care of it while merging the patch.

> > +	.dma_host_set		= ide_dma_host_set,
> > +	.dma_setup		= ide_dma_setup,
> > +	.dma_exec_cmd		= ide_dma_exec_cmd,
> > +	.dma_start		= ide_dma_start,
> > +	.dma_end		= __ide_dma_end,
> >  	.dma_test_irq		= siimage_dma_test_irq,
> > +	.dma_timeout		= ide_dma_timeout,
> > +	.dma_lost_irq		= ide_dma_lost_irq,
> >  };
> >  
> >  #define DECLARE_SII_DEV(name_str, p_ops)		\
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