Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:48:07 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: platform_device_add_data(pdev, NULL, 0) |
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:26:22PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > mfd_add_device() (defined in drivers/mfd/mfd-core.c) is a wrapper do > allocate platform_devices. > > It contains: > > ret = platform_device_add_data(pdev, > cell->platform_data, cell->data_size); > > If cell->data_size is 0 (and so likely cell->platform_data == NULL), > still pdev->dev.platform_data get assigned ZERO_SIZE_PTR. > > IMHO the result should better be that pdev->dev.platform_data ends being > NULL, too. Agreed?
Why? Is this causing problems somewhere?
thanks,
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