netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ixgbe: fix panic due to uninitialized pointer

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Message-ID: <20110211215645.GA11864@gospo.rdu.redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 11 Feb 2011 16:56:45 -0500
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] ixgbe: fix panic due to uninitialized pointer

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 04:45:47PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> Systems containing an 82599EB and running a backported driver from
> upstream were panicing on boot.  It turns out hw->mac.ops.setup_sfp is
> only set for 82599, so one should check to be sure that pointer is set
> before continuing in ixgbe_sfp_config_module_task.  I verified by
> inspection that the upstream driver has the same issue and also added a
> check before the call in ixgbe_sfp_link_config.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>

Corrected spelling error in Subject.
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