Re: [PATCH] scsi/ipr: Bugfix: add null pointer check for ioa_cfg

[Mike Qiu <qiudayu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 11/27/2013 01:20 AM, Brian King wrote:
> On 11/12/2013 09:02 PM, Mike Qiu wrote:
>> When we detects EEH errors during driver probe time, the error
>> handlers of the driver are invoked by EEH core. Unfortunately,
>> we haven't built some data structs that the error handlers
>> refers to. That leads to kernel crash eventually.
> This will only fix the kernel crash and not allow for recovery.
> Wendy is working on a patch to support recovering from these
> early EEH errors, so I'd prefer to wait and just push the one
> patch, rather than have to revert this one once Wendy's
> patch is ready.

OK, this is just a workaround, as Wendy will solve this issue, better to 
wait her solution.

Thanks
Mike
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>