develoment workflow: how to avoid duplicate work ?

Hugo Lefeuvre hle at owl.eu.com
Tue May 29 22:56:57 EDT 2018


Hi Valdis,

> The canonical place to check would be the git tree for drivers/staging:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git/
> 
> In general, if there's other people doing active development, they'll show
> up in 'git log -- drivers/staging/pi433/'
> 
> And there's only one person doing a lot of patching - and most of those are
> coding style - though he did do a locking fix in April.
> 
> What particular issue are you looking at?

For example the TODO entry at line 876: If pi433_release() is
called while pi433_ioctl() is executing between lines 879 and
880, we might perform a NULL pointer dereference, right ?

Regards,
 Hugo

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