Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2015 19:06:19 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V2] x86:pci: Change sta2x11_dma_ops stucture to use switolb_dma_supported as it's dma_supported function in sta2x11-fixup.c |
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* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > * Nicholas Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com> 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. > > Hm, I have asked a question for the v1 patch already: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/16/30 > > is there an answer to my question?
Ok, found your reply meanwhile - somehow lkml didn't index the thread properly :-/
Thanks,
Ingo
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