netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/wan: dscc4: remove broken dscc4 driver

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Message-Id: <20190916.091531.804053772243575655.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Mon, 16 Sep 2019 09:15:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     dan.carpenter@...cle.com
Cc:     romieu@...zoreil.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/wan: dscc4: remove broken dscc4 driver

From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:28:17 +0300

> Using static analysis, I discovered that the "dpriv->pci_priv->pdev"
> pointer is always NULL.  This pointer was supposed to be initialized
> during probe and is essential for the driver to work.  It would be easy
> to add a "ppriv->pdev = pdev;" to dscc4_found1() but this driver has
> been broken since before we started using git and no one has complained
> so probably we should just remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Applied to net-next.