Re: libata PATA patch for 2.6.16-rc5

[Alan Cox]

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

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