On Mon, 13 May 2013, Linus Walleij wrote:

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Lee Jones [off-list ref] wrote:

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It's completely feasible that platform data will be empty i.e. when
booting with Device Tree with no device AUXDATA. So we must protect
it's use in these use-cases, or risk a kernel Oops.

Cc: Russell King <redacted>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <redacted>
Cc: linux-serial at vger.kernel.org
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <redacted>
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If this issue has not already been fixed, this patch should be applied
during the v3.10 -rc:s, as it fixes a serious bug which was introduced
in the merge-window.
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Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <redacted>

You should probably put Greg on To: so that he picks this up for
the -rc:s ASAP.

I spoke with Greg yesterday. He's catching up on mail.

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