Re: [alsa-devel] [PATCH] ASoC: soc-core: Fix null pointer dereference in soc_find_component

From: Mark Brown
Date: Thu Jan 24 2019 - 13:44:26 EST


On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 08:01:15PM -0600, Pierre-Louis Bossart wrote:

> changes are legitimate. To move forward, maybe it's not worth spending too
> much time on a grand unification of string theory, there are simpler
> solutions: the Intel machine drivers already do get the platform driver name
> as an platform_data argument, so we could modify the dailinks platform names
> before even registering the card. I tested with the attached

Yes, that would be much better - it's vastly more idiomatic. The
general idea is that a machine driver should know what it's expecting to
find before it starts probing.

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