Re: [PATCH] PCI/ASPM: Fix a NULL pointer crash on sparc64

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On Wed, 2015-08-19 at 23:01 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> Easier said than done.  AFAIK, we won't crash after we add Yijing's
> patch.  But it's unreasonable to expect people writing to the spec to
> know the peculiarities of sparc64/powerpc, so there may be future
> things we discover the hard way.  We'll just have to deal with them as
> we find them.

I agree in general, you can't plan for all possible spec violations but
it's also pretty standard defensive coding to now blow up if stuff
doesn't look expected :)

Anyway, this one is sorted.

Cheers,
Ben.

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