Re: [PATCH 24/61] sysfs: make sysfs_put() ignore NULL sd

In article <[email protected]> (at Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:31:43 -0700), Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> says:

> Make sysfs_put() ignore NULL sd instead of oopsing.

I do not think this is a good idea; it is non-sense (and rather a bug)
to call "put" with NULL argument in general.

--yoshfuji
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