> At one point I had the NULL pointer dereference at the same address
> during boot of a new kernel, which did not have SGI patches. It appeared
> to be aic7xxx failure, but was not. I keep mentioning this one patch
> which is part of Alan Cox's ac 2.4.5 series, but which is not yet in the
> main kernel source. Even if you cannot use this patch at all times, can
> you test the following? In linux source, fs/block_dev.c, near line 596
> (depending on kernel version), there is a function "ioctl_by_bdev". In
> that function, add the line I have below that starts with "+" (don't use
> the "+"):
>
This code is in the 2.4.6-pre2 code in the cvs tree now, but you are
correct it is not in the patches.
Steve
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