On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:09:02 -0500, Andy Walls wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:44 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote: > > A few new i2c-drivers came into the kernel which clear the > > clientdata-pointer > > on exit or error. This is obsolete meanwhile, the core will do it. Simplify > > the > > kfree() calls after that, the pointers don't need to be checked. > > > > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> > > Cc: Andy Walls <[email protected]> > > Nak. > > In a module where I plan to do more cleanup and add reference counting > to struct IR, IR_tx, and IR_rx objects, I'd like the explicit "NULL"s in > pointer checks to stay in for now. > > Removing the explicit constant "NULL" makes searching for checks against > NULL pointers more difficult when auditing the code (No red syntax > highlighting and a /NULL search misses).
I agree that Wolfram was too generous with his clean-ups this time. Wolfram, you should only be removing the calls to i2c_set_clientdata(x, NULL), not changing the logic of the code. Furthermore, lirc_zilog is currently undergoing heavy changes, I'd rather let Andy and Jarod work on that staging driver, and clean up what needs to be later. -- Jean Delvare _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
