linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test

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Message-ID: <20150721135626.GA31093@sudip-PC>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2015 19:26:26 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] drm/i915: remove unnecessary null test

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 03:51:40PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 05:36:45PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > While creating the debugfs file we are setting the inode->i_private to
> > dev. That same dev is passed to these functions as private of struct
> > seq_file via single_open(). Moreover single_open is setting
> > file->private_data->private to dev.
> > So at this point it can never be NULL.
> > This check was added by commit eb3394faeb97 ("drm/i915: Add debugfs test
> > control files for Displayport compliance testing")
> > 
> 
> Still missing
> 
> Cc: Chris Wilson ...
> Cc: Todd Previte ...
> 
> here to make sure reviewers/original authors are in the loop. Anyway this
> is a simple enough patch, so I just pulled them both in.
Sorry. did you mean to put Cc: here before the Signed-off-by: ?
I have put them in Cc list of the patches.
For my next patch you will not get these issues.

regards
sudip
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