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On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Yes. Except that if hwif is NULL, we'll have other oopses since we access 
> that in other places.
> 
> Why _is_ hwif NULL anyway? That's another, unrelated thing, and should 
> probably have a separate check and an early return.

I was wondering about that one as well. Andi brought it up.