Hi Mike, On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 04:34:34, Mike Williamson wrote: > > The I2C driver implements a default platform data > > so it should actually be legal for a DA8x board to > > pass NULL platform data. In that case this line > > will crash. You should either check for pdata to > > be NULL or just let each board choose whether it > > needs recovery (I think the better option). > > > > I actually had a problem with using NULL for pdata with davinci I2C > and had submitted a patch here that sort of fell on the floor. The > problem was that the i2c_davinci_calc_clk_dividers is using > platform_data without a check as described above. So at the moment > using NULL doesn't really work, best as I can tell... > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/4/119 Looking at this mail chain, it looks like Ben was actually OK with your first submission and just wanted you to update the patch description saying that dev->platform_data is accessed later in the code and that is why it needs to be updated. I liked your first attempt better and may be you should try another submission with the patch description updated. Thanks, Sekhar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-i2c" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
