Re: [PATCH] drivers: staging: iio: adc: fix uninitialized use

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:45:01AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 07/04/11 10:10, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:01:11AM +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> >> On 07/03/11 02:47, Chris Forbes wrote:
> >>> Fixed an uninitialized variable access. In the first two error paths in
> >>> max1363_probe(), 'st' is not yet initialized, but its 'reg' member is
> >>> accessed anyway. This would most likely crash.
> >> Good spot. Please tech TODO files for staging patches. In this case it would
> >> have given you the mailing list, now cc'd.
> > 
> > It would better to add an entry to MAINTAINERS so that
> > ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl gave the right lists.
> Perhaps, but Greg KH is anti, so it isn't going to happen.

I'm coming around on this, for larger chunks of code, like iio, I don't
mind it, so feel free to send me an entry.

thanks,

greg k-h
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