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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/11] drivers/scsi: Eliminate a NULL pointer dereference
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:53:02 +0200
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> If it is a problem to use 0 when host is NULL, then the code could be fixed
> in another way.
> 

Yeah.  It seems like it would be better to give a clearly bogus number.
I would have said -1 but "scsi-1" looks normal so maybe something like 
9999999?

regards,
dan carpenter