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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [another PATCH] Fix crash on boot in kmalloc_node IDE changes
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 18:40:24 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:38:17AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > 
> > Here is IMHO the right way to fix this. Test for the hwif != NULL and
> > test for pci_dev != NULL before determining the node number of the pci 
> > bus that the device is connected to.
> 
> I think this is pretty unreadable.
> 
> If you make it use a trivial inline function for the thing, I think that 
> would be ok, though.
> 
> Complex expressions are bad.

You could just use the previous patch I posted (hint hint...;) 

-Andi