netdev - Re: [PATCH v2.6.22-rc5] cxgb2: handle possible NULL pointer dereferencing, take 2

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:16:55 +0530
From:	"pradeep singh" <pradeep.rautela@...il.com>
To:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	trivial@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2.6.22-rc5] cxgb2: handle possible NULL pointer dereferencing, take 2

On 6/23/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:48:30 +0530 "pradeep singh" <pradeep.rautela@...il.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > My mistake.
> > Resending after reformatting the patch by hand.
> > Looks like gmail messes the plain text patches.
> >
>
> That's still mangled so I typed it in again.
Sorry Andrew.
>
> Please always include a full changlog with each version of a patch.
point noted down.
>
> I do not know what this patch does - please provide a changelog.  In this
> case it should tell us whether and how this null pointer deref is actually
> occuring and if so, why.
affirmative.
>
> As well as a full description of the problem which it solves, a changelog
> should also describe _how_ it solved it, but that is sufficiently obvious
> in this case.

Thanks for the invaluable suggestion Andrew.

Thanks a lot once again.

~pradeep
>
>
> Thanks.
>


-- 
Pradeep
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