[PATCH v2] dmaengine: shdma: fix a build failure on platforms with no DMA support

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Fri May 31 11:04:17 EDT 2013


On Friday 31 May 2013 10:00:29 Dan Murphy wrote:
> My consideration was that since this is an exported symbol that a driver
> could call this API explicitly without checking for
> the function pointer first, there is a potential of calling a NULL pointer.

Drivers never call a filter function directly, so that is not an issue.
Even if a driver would try it, that would not actually compile.
	
	Arnd



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