From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:14:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:56227 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20037809AbXBPBN4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 01:13:56 +0000 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l1G1AahB002841 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:10:36 -0800 Received: from akpm.corp.google.com (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id l1G1Aa7H015113; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:10:36 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 17:10:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Marc St-Jean Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial driver PMC MSP71xx, kernel linux-mips.git master Message-Id: <20070215171035.83918aae.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <200702151926.l1FJQT2o020816@pasqua.pmc-sierra.bc.ca> References: <200702151926.l1FJQT2o020816@pasqua.pmc-sierra.bc.ca> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.176 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 14115 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: akpm@linux-foundation.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 13:26:29 -0600 Marc St-Jean wrote: > + status = *(volatile u32 *)up->port.private_data; It distresses me that this patch uses a variable which this patch doesn't initialise anywhere. It isn't complete. The sub-driver code whch sets up this field shuld be included in the patch, no?