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From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix possible null pointer dereference in ariadne.c
Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:17:13 +0530
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On 03/02/2011 01:23 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: huzaifas@redhat.com
> Date: Tue,  1 Mar 2011 17:03:27 +0530
> 
>> +    *lance = (struct Am79C960*)dev->base_addr;
> 
> If you had actually compiled this, the compiler would have given
> you a warning shoing that the leading "*" in "*lance" is not
> appropriate for this assignment.
i did build, but looks like something happened after that :(
Sorry about the mess-up , will repost the patch.