On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 06:20:10PM -0700, H Hartley Sweeten wrote: > The 'thisboard' macro depends on having a local variable with > a magic name. The CodingStyle document suggests not doing this > to avoid confusion. Remove the macro and use the comedi_board() > inline helper to get the dev->board_ptr information. > > Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Mori Hess <fmhess@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > @@ -769,13 +765,7 @@ static int s526_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it) > } > ***/ > > -/* > - * Initialize dev->board_name. Note that we can use the "thisboard" > - * macro now, since we just initialized it in the last line. > - */ > - dev->board_ptr = &s526_boards[0]; Was this intended? Most of the boards have auto probing so the ->board_ptr gets set automatically. We already called comedi_board() so I wonder if the autoprobed board is the same as the &s526_boards[0];? NULL pointer perhaps? I don't know. > - > - dev->board_name = thisboard->name; > + dev->board_name = board->name; > > /* > * Allocate the private structure area. alloc_private() is a regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel