On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 07:09:02PM -0500, Andy Walls wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-24 at 11:44 +0100, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> > A few new i2c-drivers came into the kernel which clear the clientdata-pointer
> > on exit or error. This is obsolete meanwhile, the core will do it. Simplify the
> > kfree() calls after that, the pointers don't need to be checked.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
> 
> Nak.
> 
> In a module where I plan to do more cleanup and add reference counting
> to struct IR, IR_tx, and IR_rx objects, I'd like the explicit "NULL"s in
> pointer checks to stay in for now.

Okay, I will ignore this driver until it comes out of staging.

Thanks,

   Wolfram

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