A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 05:42:44PM +0530, Vishal Sharda wrote: > > Yes, I'd seen that but the question is that whether can it be NULL? > > I had gone through the function chains from where it is called but > couldn't find where can it be NULL? Are you having a problem with some driver that is causing this to happen? Or just wanting to figure out why I put a "let's better be safe than sorry" check in the code? thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/