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From: Stefan Raspl <raspl@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Fix Null pointer Exception
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:17:37 +0200
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Alasdair G Kergon wrote:

> Have you had chance to look at old kernel versions to see in which
> commit this was introduced?

The next best thing I can come up with is that it has been around in
2.6.9 already. But I believe the DASD driver did the NULL thing to
its internal queue also back then, still.

Ciao,
Stefan


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