linux-kernel - Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] lis3: Fix Oops with NULL platform data

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Date:	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:16:34 -0700
From:	Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
CC:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"lm-sensors@...sensors.org" <lm-sensors@...sensors.org>,
	Éric Piel <Eric.Piel@...mplin-utc.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] [PATCH v2] lis3: Fix Oops with NULL platform data

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 10:30:05AM -0400, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:14:26 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:58:02 -0700,
> > Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 01:58:33AM -0400, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > > The recent addition of threaded irq handler causes a NULL dereference
> > > > when used with hp_accel driver, which has NULL pdata.
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@...ia.com>
> > > > Acked-by: Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@...csson.com>
> > > > Cc: <stable@...nel.org>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
> > > 
> > > Applied.
> > 
> > Oh, does this driver belong to hwmon tree?
> > Jean told me that this isn't managed in hwmon, so I had an impression
> > that it's an orphan driver.
> 
> Well, as long as the driver lives in drivers/hwmon and the hwmon
> subsystem is maintained, it seems fair to consider the driver
> maintained.
> 
I absolutely second that. Otherwise things would get too complicated.

Guenter
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