[PATCH v2 3/8] watchdog: at91rm9200: use the regmap from mfd

Alexandre Belloni alexandre.belloni at free-electrons.com
Mon Jan 12 06:08:36 PST 2015


On 10/01/2015 at 17:14:00 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote :
> Not sure I understand what my comment has to do with 'parent'.
> 
> The fact that the code checks if it has already been instantiated
> suggests that the original author of the driver was concerned about
> that case. Since you did not remove that check I have to assume that
> this can still happen. If so, the second instantiation attempt will
> overwrite regmap_st, since that variable is written prior to checking
> for the dual instantiation.
> 

I'll move the regmap_st assignment after the check. But I really believe
it will never be probed more than once.

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