From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Diego de Estrada <diego1609@gmail.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] release_resource() check for NULL resource
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 20:28:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051003202831.64d6e5a6.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5dc44ec70510031959w1f4adfcbh395535ade34a357d@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:59:16 -0300 Diego de Estrada wrote:
> On 10/2/05, Randy.Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2 Oct 2005 18:03:18 +0100 Ben Dooks wrote:
> >
> > > If release_resource() is passed a NULL resource
> > > the kernel will OOPS.
> >
> > does this actually happen? you are fixing a real oops?
> > if so, what driver caused it?
>
> The point is: no driver should make the kernel OOPS. Thanks Ben.
I understand that sentiment, but if a driver is bad,
we generally want to know about that rather than paste
(or paper) over it on a continuous basis.
---
~Randy
You can't do anything without having to do something else first.
-- Belefant's Law
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-04 3:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-02 17:03 Ben Dooks
2005-10-02 17:39 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-10-03 9:48 ` Ben Dooks
2005-10-03 9:59 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-10-03 10:04 ` Russell King
2005-10-03 12:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-10-03 12:49 ` Russell King
2005-10-03 12:54 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-10-03 13:00 ` Russell King
2005-10-03 13:12 ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-10-03 13:42 ` Russell King
2005-10-03 13:42 ` Al Viro
2005-10-03 14:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2005-10-04 2:15 ` Randy.Dunlap
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2005-10-04 3:00 ` Diego de Estrada
2005-10-04 3:28 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
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2005-10-04 22:31 ` Bodo Eggert
2005-10-05 9:06 ` Russell King
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