Re: [PATCH] pci: of : fix BUG: unable to handle kernel

[Murali Karicheri]

On 03/11/2015 08:49 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 07:35:45AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@xxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > On some platforms such as that based on x86, ia64 etc, root bus is
> > > created with parent node passed in as NULL to pci_create_root_bus().
> > > On these platforms, the patch series "PCI: get DMA configuration from
> > > parent device" when applied causes kernel crash. So add a check for this
> > > in of_pci_dma_configure()
> >
> > Wouldn't these arches have OF disabled and call an empty function?
> > Regardless, we still need this.
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri<m-karicheri2@xxxxxx>
> >
> > I'm assuming Bjorn will apply this.
> >
> > Acked-by: Rob Herring<robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It might be an idea to read the subject line...
>
> "fix BUG: unable to handle kernel"
Russell,

I will fix the subject as "fix BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL 
pointer" and re-send.

Thanks

Murali
> which is meaningless.  It needs a much better subject line before it can
> be committed.


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Murali Karicheri
Linux Kernel, Texas Instruments
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