linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] video/saa7164: Fix sparse warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer

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Date:	Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:25:51 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc:	Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@....de>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	linux-media@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Steven Toth <stoth@...nellabs.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video/saa7164: Fix sparse warning: Using plain integer
 as NULL pointer

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:20:44PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Peter Huewe wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes the warning "Using plain integer as NULL pointer",
> > generated by sparse, by replacing the offending 0s with NULL.
> I recall (a number of years ago) being told that for things like kmalloc, 
> the proper test was !x, not x == NULL.
> 

It was Al Viro who said that.  Here's the link.

http://lwn.net/Articles/331593/

regards,
dan carpenter

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