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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 21:24:47 +0100
From: Alois Fertl <alois_fertl@talknet.de>
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To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
CC: LinuxppcDev <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Problem in ncr53c8xx.c driver
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Version revision 3.2d from 6th of Dec. crashed my ppc kernel
at boot because it tries to access the nvram witin the
ncr53c8xx_pci_init() function before the pointer has been
correctly initialized. The patch below adds the initialization.

	Alois
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--- drivers/scsi/ncr53c8xx.c.dist	Tue Dec 21 20:35:12 1999
+++ drivers/scsi/ncr53c8xx.c.new	Mon Jan  3 21:14:12 2000
@@ -9509,6 +9509,7 @@
 		devp = &devtbl[count];
 		devp->host_id = driver_setup.host_id;
 		devp->attach_done = 0;
+		devp->nvram = nvp;
 		if (ncr53c8xx_pci_init(tpnt, pcidev, devp)) {
 			continue;
 		}

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