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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:26:30 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18400.41990.995316.729968@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080317195305.GA13298@aepfle.de>

Olaf Hering writes:

> I cant reproduce this bug on my board, but:
> 
> The global primary_ipic in arch/powerpc/sysdev/ipic.c can remain NULL if
> ipic_init() fails. init_ipic_sysfs() will crash in that case.
> 
> Something like this may fix it:

Is this needed for 2.6.25?  Is the system at all usable if ipic_init
fails?

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-19  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-17 19:53 crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika Olaf Hering
2008-03-19  5:26 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2008-03-20  6:45   ` Olaf Hering
2008-03-19 15:27 ` Olaf Hering
2008-03-20 11:32   ` Matt Sealey
2008-03-21 11:18     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-03-20 15:15 ` Kumar Gala
2008-03-21  1:38   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-21  5:14 ` Grant Likely
2008-03-21  9:03   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-21  9:18     ` Kumar Gala
2008-03-24  8:02       ` Paul Mackerras
2008-03-24 22:59         ` Kumar Gala
2008-03-21 13:14     ` Matt Sealey
2008-03-21 18:51       ` Grant Likely
2008-03-22 15:25         ` Sven Luther
2008-03-23  9:00           ` David Woodhouse
2008-03-23 10:12             ` Sven Luther
2008-03-23 10:13               ` David Woodhouse
2008-03-23 10:24                 ` Sven Luther
2008-03-24 23:01         ` Matt Sealey

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