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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SATA Transport Attributes
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:16:27 -0800
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On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 07:46:01PM -0500, Martin Hicks wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Here is a patch that introduces a Transport Attribute class for SATA
> devices.  The patch also includes an update to the Vitesse driver to use
> the transport attribute.
> 
> The only problem that I'm having right now is that sometimes I get
> a NULL pointer dereference in scsi_remove_device() when I rmmod sata_vsc.

There's a nasty sysfs "issue" right now that can cause this to happen.
See the thread about it on lkml for more details.  This might be causing
your oops.

thanks,

greg k-h