Re: 2.6.25-rc8-mm1 panic in rpaphp_register_slot()

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>]

Alex Chiang wrote:
>>>> +	if (slot->bus->self)
>>>> +		slot_nr = PCI_SLOT(slot->bus->self->devfn);
>>>> +	else
>>>> +		slot_nr = 0;
>>>> +	retval = pci_hp_register(php_slot, slot->bus, slot_nr);
>>>>  	if (retval) {
>>>>  		err("pci_hp_register failed with error %d\n", retval);
>>>>  		return retval;
>>>>         
>> No. It didn't help. I had to hack "slot_nr = 0" all the time to boot my  
>> machine.
>>     
>
> It didn't help because you're still getting a NULL deref? Or are
> you seeing some other failure mode?
>   
I am pretty sure it was NULL deref. I can double check again, but have 
to wait
till tomorrow morning - don't have access to console right now.

Thanks,
Badari