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SubjectSubtle but oops causing problem with class_device->device conversion
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It's taken me a while to track this down.  Basically there's an oops in
scsi_transport_spi that's directly caused by this.

What happened is that you made all class devices become real devices and
be parented to devices they were formerly allied to through the class
device dev pointer. This means that effectively you expanded the child
list of every device to include not only its real children but also its
class devices.

This breaks in device_for_each_child *if* the routine in the iterator
doesn't perform checks on the devices it gets back (scsi_transport_spi
was assuming that every device it got was embedded in a struct
scsi_device because they're the only logical children of a scsi_target).

I can fix the SCSI breakage, but the whole tree will need auditing to
check that nothing else is using this assumption.

James




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