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Re: [PATCH -next] smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF is configured or used

From Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH -next] smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF is configured or used
Date 2015-08-18 00:40 +0200
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On 08/17/2015 05:14 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> One nitpick I noticed after sending my patch: dev can never be NULL in
> smsc911x_probe_config(), so it does not really make sense to check if it is NULL.

No, it doesn't... it should really be something like

if (dev_fwnode(dev))

But dev_fwnode is static inline in property.c, and i'm pretty sure that 
still isn't 100% correct.The best plan might just be to remove the 
check, and abort on failure to find the phy property per your patch.





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[PATCH -next] smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF is configured or used Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-08-17 22:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH -next] smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF  is configured or used David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2015-08-17 23:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH -next] smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF is  configured or used Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com> - 2015-08-17 23:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH -next] smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF  is configured or used Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2015-08-18 00:20 +0200
      Re: [PATCH -next] smsc911x: Fix crash seen if neither ACPI nor OF is  configured or used Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com> - 2015-08-18 00:40 +0200

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