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From: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>, <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	"Liam Girdwood" <lgirdwood@gmail.com>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, "Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ALSA: ASoC: soc-compress.c: fix NULL dereference
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 07:53:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54B6205C.7060608@imgtec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150113162004.GR4160@sirena.org.uk>

On 01/13/2015 04:20 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 03:16:10PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
>> On 01/13/2015 02:59 PM, Vinod Koul wrote:
>>>> being NULL, hence when trying to set rtd a few lines below we get an oops.
>>> It is a good practice to add the oops here
>> Will this really be helpful? I think it'll be more clutter (the backtrace on
>> metag arch is not great):
> It's better in general to leave it out unless it's adding something (for
> example sometimes the particular call path is important) and even there
> edit it down to relevant details - the splat from the full oops normally
> overwhelms the commit message.

I think the commit message explains what's going. So unless Vinod 
insists I'll send v3 with the other 2 requested fixes.

Thanks for the review!

  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-14  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-13 11:18 [PATCH v2] ALSA: ASoC: soc-compress.c: fix NULL dereference Qais Yousef
2015-01-13 14:59 ` Vinod Koul
2015-01-13 15:16   ` Qais Yousef
2015-01-13 16:20     ` Mark Brown
2015-01-14  7:53       ` Qais Yousef [this message]
2015-01-13 17:21     ` James Hogan
2015-01-14  8:00       ` Qais Yousef

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