netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] hdlcdrv: replace unnecessary assertion in hdlcdrv

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Message-Id: <20191219.173432.1907178642147983703.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:34:32 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     pakki001@....edu
Cc:     kjlu@....edu, tglx@...utronix.de, elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, kstewart@...uxfoundation.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hdlcdrv: replace unnecessary assertion in
 hdlcdrv_register

From: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:06:19 -0600

> In hdlcdrv_register, failure to register the driver causes a crash.
> The three callers of hdlcdrv_register all pass valid pointers and
> do not fail. The patch eliminates the unnecessary BUG_ON assertion.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@....edu>

Applied to net-next.