Re: [PATCH] driver : edac : Fix warning using plain integer as NULL

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Mon Nov 27 2023 - 13:40:03 EST


On Mon, Nov 27, 2023 at 11:53:02PM +0530, Abhinav Singh wrote:
> Hello, thanks for reviewing this. As of now this is only a warning issue in
> kernel. I saw this post by linus
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sparse/msg10066.html and thought of
> submitting a patch. Also a similar patch of mine got accepted
> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg2560740.html,
> so thought about opening this one as well.

Lemme try to understand what you're saying: just because someone
accepted a patch of yours, then others should not ask you to improve
your commit message so that it explains *why* a change should be done.

How about you put the gist of what Linus is saying in your commit
message? Don't you think it would be a much better commit message then?

Especially if it explains why, even if it is the case that 0 == NULL, we
don't want those in the kernel.

Hmmm?

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