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From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] perf/x86/rapl: replace 0 with NULL to initialize
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On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 08:14:03PM +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> Pointers should be initialized with NULL rather than zero. Fix these.

Why ? This isn't C++, heck, this isn't even C, this is the kernel, we
hard rely on NULL being 0.