linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:47:59 +0300
From:	Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@...mvista.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Marc St-Jean <stjeanma@...-sierra.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master

Hello.

Andrew Morton wrote:

>>+			status = *(volatile u32 *)up->port.private_data;

> It distresses me that this patch uses a variable which this patch
> doesn't initialise anywhere.  It isn't complete.

    I assume this gets passed via early_serial_setup(). Marc?

> The sub-driver code whch sets up this field shuld be included in the
> patch, no?

    Hardly so, this code (not a subdriver) resides under arch/mips/ I think.

WBR, Sergei
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/