Re: [PATCH] MXSFB: Fix driver registration

From: Shawn Guo
Date: Mon Dec 19 2011 - 08:51:25 EST


Cc-ed Florian and linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, as I guess Florian is
the person who will take this patch.

-- Regards,Shawn
On 18 December 2011 08:58, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The driver should be registered with mxsfb_driver, not with mxsfb_devtype.
> This caused obvious null pointer dereference and crash.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Stefano Babic <sbabic@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Huang Shijie <b32955@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/video/mxsfb.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/video/mxsfb.c b/drivers/video/mxsfb.c
> index 18742c2..d29c7c0 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/mxsfb.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/mxsfb.c
> @@ -902,7 +902,7 @@ static struct platform_driver mxsfb_driver = {
>        },
>  };
>
> -module_platform_driver(mxsfb_devtype);
> +module_platform_driver(mxsfb_driver);
>
>  MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Freescale mxs framebuffer driver");
>  MODULE_AUTHOR("Sascha Hauer, Pengutronix");
> --
> 1.7.6.4
>
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