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Subject: Re: Badness in device_release at drivers/base/core.c:84
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Diffie <diffie@blazebox.homeip.net> wrote:
>
> After applaying the above patch and testing it still oopses the kernel.
> 
> I noticed same patch in today's mm3 which i compiled and use right now.
> 
> When using cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 i get segmentation fault and oops
> which i'll attach to this email.
>
> ...
>
>  EIP is at aic7xxx_proc_info+0xc28/0xc80

This is crashing in a different place.  Probably the same bug, showing up
later on.

I don't know if anyone is maintaining aic7xxx_old in 2.7.  It looks like it
was subject to some random untested change a couple of months back.