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Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 19:33:55 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Joseph Cosby <jocosby@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Oops: NULL Pointer With Adaptec AIC-7901X Chipset
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On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:25:51PM -0700, Joseph Cosby wrote:
> I'm getting a NULL Pointer oops with the AIC-7901X chipset from Adaptec.
> 
> Using a 2.6.9 kernel, and patching in the driver from Adaptec, I am getting 
> a NULL pointer oops as linux is booting. The Null pointer is the variable 
> sdev->request_queue, in the module scsi.c, in the function 
> scsi_adjust_queue_depth.

Can you please retry without patching in a known buggy driver?