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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 15:20:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG-2.5.24-BK] DriverFS panics on boot!
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James,

The whole reason for my replacement was to add driverfs to IDE and remove
devfs and ultimately "de-gooch" the kernel.  So we are nearly 100 patches
in and the primary reason for ousting is still a failure, NICE!

On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, James Bottomley wrote:

> Er, oops, I think this one's my fault.
> 
> The recent driverfs additions for SCSI also added partition handling in 
> driverfs.  The code is slightly more invasive than it should be so the IDE 
> driver needs to know how to use it (which it doesn't yet).  In theory there's 
> a NULL pointer check in driverfs_create_partitions for precisely this case, 
> but it looks like the IDE code is forgetting to zero out a kmalloc of a struct 
> gendisk somewhere (hence the 5a5a... contents).  At a cursory glance, this 
> seems to be in ide/probe.c, so does the attached patch fix it?
> 
> I'll try to reproduce, but I'm all SCSI here except for my laptop.
> 
> James
> 
> 

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

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