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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 04:25:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] video/saa7164: Fix sparse warning: Using plain integer
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To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Steven Toth <stoth@kernellabs.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:20:44PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Peter Huewe wrote:
> 
> > This patch fixes the warning "Using plain integer as NULL pointer",
> > generated by sparse, by replacing the offending 0s with NULL.
> I recall (a number of years ago) being told that for things like kmalloc, 
> the proper test was !x, not x = NULL.
> 

It was Al Viro who said that.  Here's the link.

http://lwn.net/Articles/331593/

regards,
dan carpenter