Re: [PATCH RESEND] x86:pci: Change sta2x11_dma_ops stucture to use switolb_dma_supported as it's dma_supported function in sta2x11-fixup.c

[Ingo Molnar]

* Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This changes the structure sta2x11_dma_ops stucture to 
> use switolb_dma_supported as it's function for 
> dma_supported hardware verus setting this value to NULL 
> as this should be set correctly for when dma_supported 
> function needs to be called for this hardware. Otherwise 
> this will cause a bug that will crash a operation needing 
> to access this function if an intended hardware operation 
> needs to call it but the kernel has the function pointer 
> for this structure set to NULL incorrectly.

This is a pretty vague description - what specific hardware 
is affected and how is the bug triggered?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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