Re: [PATCH] i2c: rcar: fix a possible NULL dereference

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Thu Nov 12 2015 - 03:09:34 EST


Hello Wolfram,

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:52:38AM +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 08:44:47AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > Other than that, the NULL pointer dereference should only happen if the
> > device was bound using the driver name. That might be worth to point out
> > in the commit log. So maybe make (in a separate patch) the probe
> > function fail when probed by name?
>
> RCar is a DT only platform.

Does this imply that no checking is needed? I'm not sure.

Best regards
Uwe

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