Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750752AbWB1N2Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:28:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750762AbWB1N2Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:28:16 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:61071 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750752AbWB1N2P (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Feb 2006 08:28:15 -0500 Subject: Re: libata PATA patch for 2.6.16-rc5 From: Alan Cox To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <1141054370.3089.0.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1141085952.3089.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:32:37 +0000 Message-Id: <1141133557.3089.66.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 764 Lines: 19 On Maw, 2006-02-28 at 13:12 +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "rmmod pata_via" and then "modprobe pata_via" is still there: > > ata3: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1F0 ctl 0x3F6 bmdma 0xE000 irq 14 > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 This appears to be a bug in the libata core code. I can duplicate it with a NULL driver that simply fakes no devices attached. It definitely needs looking at but I don't think its PATA caused at this moment. Of course I may yet be wrong 8) Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/