From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Vipin Mehta <vmehta@atheros.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing a NULL pointer exception
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:29:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110218212938.GA21986@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298063596-2096-1-git-send-email-vmehta@atheros.com>
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 01:13:02PM -0800, Vipin Mehta wrote:
> The driver was dereferencing a NULL pointer because of the device instance
> being registered via the set_wiphy_dev() function. The function
> ar6000_avail_ev() was passing the argument as NULL instead of using the one
> returned by the MMC stack through the probe callback.
I've applied all of these, but note that some of them add whitespace
warnings. In the future, I'll reject those that do this, please always
run your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl to not have this happen.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-18 21:13 [PATCH 01/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing a NULL pointer exception Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 02/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing key settings for WPA/WPA2 Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 03/15] staging: ath6kl: Return correct scan complete status Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 05/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing driver initialization for manufacturing mode Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 07/15] staging: ath6kl: Adding support for txop bursting enable/disable Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 08/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing a memory leak Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 10/15] staging: ath6kl: Add configuration for excessive TX retry threshold Vipin Mehta
2011-02-19 10:00 ` Dan Carpenter
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 12/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing the cached copy of the BSS filter set by user Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 13/15] staging: ath6kl: Adding state in driver to track the sme state Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:13 ` [PATCH 15/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing disappearing of scan list due to jiffies wrap over Vipin Mehta
2011-02-18 21:29 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-02-18 21:56 ` [PATCH 01/15] staging: ath6kl: Fixing a NULL pointer exception Joe Perches
2011-02-18 22:40 ` Vipin Mehta
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