From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: altera_uart: Check for NULL platform_data in probe. Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:47:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20120329194711.GB12194@kroah.com> References: <1333007727-24045-1-git-send-email-tklauser@distanz.ch> <20120329161337.GA28858@kroah.com> <20120329193855.GW21503@distanz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:44450 "EHLO mail-pb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758786Ab2C2TrP (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:47:15 -0400 Received: by pbcun15 with SMTP id un15so544965pbc.19 for ; Thu, 29 Mar 2012 12:47:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20120329193855.GW21503@distanz.ch> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Tobias Klauser Cc: Alan Cox , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Yuriy Kozlov On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:38:55PM +0200, Tobias Klauser wrote: > On 2012-03-29 at 18:13:37 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 09:55:27AM +0200, Tobias Klauser wrote: > > > From: Yuriy Kozlov > > > > > > Follow altera_jtag_uart. This fixes a crash if there is a mistake in the DTS. > > > > Is this something you have seen in the wild? Is this something to be > > backported to stable kernels? > > Not that I know of. But nevertheless it might be worthwhile. Shall I > send the patch again with Cc: stable@kernel.org? Nope, I can add it. But, if this isn't something that you have seen, why is it needed to be checked for? What is this making work properly that isn't working properly now? thanks, greg k-h