On Sat, 17 May 2008, David Brownell wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 May 2008 13:06:20 -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> > > Defend the i2c refcount calls against NULL pointers, as is important
> > > (and conventional) for such calls ... we don't want to morph NULL
> > > pointers into bogus non-null ones.
> >
> > Passing NULL to the current functions would just crash, it wouldn't
> > morph anything.
>
> That's only if you assume an MMU set up to cause oopsing on reference
> to the first and last pages of memory.  Not the best of assumptions...

Maybe BUG_ON(!client) would be better?  It seems more likely to catch
a programming error.

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