From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Will Newton" <will.newton@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support specifying DW APB UARTSs in device platform_data
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:39:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071220213919.79ff17f1@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5b0800712200648o7cc48af9ic38d7d568affdbc8@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:48:45 +0000
"Will Newton" <will.newton@gmail.com> wrote:
> This patch allows the private_data field to be specified in
> platform_data for the standard 8250/16550 UART. This field is used by
> DW APB type UARTs and without this patch it's only possible to set
> this field when registering the port by hand. If private_data is not
> set then the
> driver will potentially oops with a NULL pointer dereference.
Fine by me.
Alan
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2007-12-20 14:48 [PATCH] Support specifying DW APB UARTSs in device platform_data Will Newton
2007-12-20 21:39 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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