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From: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
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To: Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
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       Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] ide: fix kmalloc_node breakage in ide driver
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On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Ravikiran G Thirumalai wrote:

> Machines with ide-interfaces which do not have pci devices are crashing on boot
> at pcibus_to_node in the ide drivers.  We noticed this on a x445 running
> 2.6.13-rc4.  Similar issue was discussed earlier, but the crash was due 
> to hwif being NULL.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=112075352000003&r=1&w=2
> Andi and Christoph had patches, but neither went in.  Here's one of those
> patches with an added BUG_ON(hwif == NULL).  Please include.

This needs to go into 2.6.13.