On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:00:48AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > On Mon, 06 Oct 2014, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > --- a/drivers/mfd/ab8500-sysctrl.c > > +++ b/drivers/mfd/ab8500-sysctrl.c > > @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ > > [...] > > > +static int ab8500_power_off(struct notifier_block *this, unsigned long unused1, > > + void *unused2) > > { > > sigset_t old; > > sigset_t all; > > @@ -34,11 +36,6 @@ static void ab8500_power_off(void) > > struct power_supply *psy; > > int ret; > > > > - if (sysctrl_dev == NULL) { > > - pr_err("%s: sysctrl not initialized\n", __func__); > > - return; > > - } > > Can you explain the purpose of this change please? I guess it's because the sysctrl_dev is already initialised when registering the power_off handler, so there isn't a way to call the above function with a NULL sysctrl_dev. Probably even with the original code you didn't need this check (after some race fix in ab8500_sysctrl_remove but races is one of the things Guenter's patches try to address). -- Catalin