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From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] coccinelle: Check for missing NULL terminators in of_device_id
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On 05/25/14 07:13, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> Failure to terminate an of_device_id table can lead to confusing
>> failures depending on where the compiler places the array. Add a
>> check to make sure these tables are terminated. Thanks to Mitchel
>> Humpherys for coming up with the initial pattern.
> I've definitely debugged one of those problems. Do you have any actual
> fixes or there are no errors in the kernel?
>
>

Yes I sent five patches out. Here's one for example
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/23/731

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