On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 15:49 -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:

The crash below occurred because "params->bp == NULL" in
bnx2x_update_mng().  This is with the 1.45.11 driver version
on a RHEL 5.2 kernel.

This is on a prototype ia64 box, and I'm told that there's
some bnx2x firmware that is missing from the system firmware,
so this might be a "we don't care about this problem because
users will never see this situation" sort of thing.

You are right - the problem is that the data from the board is invalid
since there is no valid boot-code FW burned on it so the board cannot
be used

But it is annoying that it crashes the box rather than just
causing the driver to ignore the device.

And this is also true - so we will fix it soon and submit a patch

Bjorn

Thanks for finding it,
Eilon