Hi "Daniel, [FYI, it's a private test report for your RFC patch.] [auto build test WARNING on linuxtv-media/master] [also build test WARNING on next-20200515] [cannot apply to v5.7-rc5] [if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982] url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Daniel-W-S-Almeida/media-vidtv-implement-a-virtual-DVB-driver/20200516-055059 base: git://linuxtv.org/media_tree.git master reproduce: # apt-get install sparse # sparse version: v0.6.1-193-gb8fad4bc-dirty make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate Reported-by: kbuild test robot sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) >> drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridg.c:199:42: sparse: sparse: Using plain integer as NULL pointer drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridg.c:218:42: sparse: sparse: Using plain integer as NULL pointer vim +199 drivers/media/test-drivers/vidtv/vidtv_bridg.c 196 197 static void vidtv_bridge_probe_demod(struct vidtv_dvb *dvb, u32 n) 198 { > 199 struct vidtv_demod_config cfg = {0}; 200 struct dvb_frontend *fe = NULL; 201 202 cfg.frontend = &fe; 203 cfg.drop_tslock_prob_on_low_snr = drop_tslock_prob_on_low_snr; 204 cfg.recover_tslock_prob_on_good_snr = recover_tslock_prob_on_good_snr; 205 206 dvb->i2c_client_demod[n] = dvb_module_probe("vidtv_demod", 207 NULL, 208 dvb->i2c_adapter, 209 DEMOD_DEFAULT_ADDR, 210 &cfg); 211 212 /* retrieve a pointer to struct dvb_frontend */ 213 dvb->fe[n] = *cfg.frontend; 214 } 215 --- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service, Intel Corporation https://lists.01.org/hyperkitty/list/kbuild-all(a)lists.01.org