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Subject: Re: 2.5.58 Oops when booting from initrd - kobject_del 
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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:53:26 CST, Patrick Mochel said:
> Could you please try the following patch and see if it fixes the problem?

This fix worked for me.. am on 2.5.58 right now....  Many thanks..

/Valdis 

> ===== drivers/block/elevator.c 1.36 vs edited =====
> --- 1.36/drivers/block/elevator.c	Sun Jan 12 08:10:40 2003
> +++ edited/drivers/block/elevator.c	Tue Jan 14 15:46:00 2003
> @@ -431,10 +431,13 @@
>  void elv_unregister_queue(struct gendisk *disk)
>  {
>  	request_queue_t *q = disk->queue;
> -	elevator_t *e = &q->elevator;
> +	elevator_t *e;
>  
> -	kobject_unregister(&e->kobj);
> -	kobject_put(&disk->kobj);
> +	if (q) {
> +		e = &q->elevator;
> +		kobject_unregister(&e->kobj);
> +		kobject_put(&disk->kobj);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  elevator_t elevator_noop = {
> 
> 


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