Re: 2.6.25-git16 -- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereferenceat 00000000 -- IP: [<c02dd5d5>] fw_show_drv_device_ids+0xd9/0xee

[Dan Noé]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> I could look into keeping those messages down to only a single one per 
> attempt to fetch the so-called configuration ROM of an added node.

Seems like this is ideal.

> (The ROM CRC error warning has been added in 2.6.22.  Before Linux 
> 2.6.22, the ROM CRC errors were silently accepted.  The new alternative 
> firewire drivers also do not warn about ROM CRC errors... yet...)

I like to be warned about things, even if there isn't anything I can 
really do about it (fix my IEEE 1394 ROM CRC? :) But there doesn't seem 
to be any point to repeating the message.

Do the repeats come because it prints each time the config ROM is accessed?

Cheers,
Dan

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