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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] sfc: Clear I2C adapter structure in
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:55:32 -0800 (PST)
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:53:02 +0000

> i2c_del_adapter() leaves dangling pointers in the structure.  If we
> retry the NIC probe and pass the structure to i2c_add_adapter() again
> it will lead to an oops unless we clear it first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

Applied.