Hi Ralf, Avoid a NULL-pointer dereference when using pci_alloc_consistent() for PCI-like buses (i.e. hwdev = NULL). --- linux-mips-2.4.x/arch/mips/kernel/pci-dma.c Tue Apr 1 16:21:18 2003 +++ linux/arch/mips/kernel/pci-dma.c Thu May 15 18:17:35 2003 @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ { void *ret; int gfp = GFP_ATOMIC; + struct pci_bus *bus = NULL; #ifdef CONFIG_ISA if (hwdev == NULL || hwdev->dma_mask != 0xffffffff) @@ -30,7 +31,9 @@ if (ret != NULL) { memset(ret, 0, size); - *dma_handle = bus_to_baddr(hwdev->bus, __pa(ret)); + if (hwdev) + bus = hwdev->bus; + *dma_handle = bus_to_baddr(bus, __pa(ret)); #ifdef CONFIG_NONCOHERENT_IO dma_cache_wback_inv((unsigned long) ret, size); ret = UNCAC_ADDR(ret); Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds