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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppp: don't use 0 in pointer context
Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:47:12 -0800 (PST)
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From: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 14:45:08 -0800

>         Why would sparse complain about this? 0 is a well-defined
> pointer value (the only value guaranteed to be by the language).

Because sparse goes beyond the standards and tries to
catch cases that usually end up being bugs.