Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v3] staging: lustre: llite: Remove IS_ERR tests

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 05:38:44PM +0530, Amitoj Kaur Chawla wrote:
> ll_iget() has been modified to always return NULL in case of error and
> not a ERR_PTR.
> 
> Consequently, remove unnecessary IS_ERR tests as now ll_iget() function 
> can never return a ERR_PTR.
> 
> This patch also removes checkpatch warnings:
> Comparison to NULL could be written "!root"
> Comparison to NULL could be written "!inode"
> 
> Additionally, reinitialising root and inode to NULL has been removed
> since they have already been tested for the same.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amitoj Kaur Chawla <amitoj1606@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v3:
>         -Modified ll_iget() to only return NULL in case of error
> Changes in v2:
>         -Remove IS_ERR test instead of replacing it with
>          IS_ERR_OR_NULL

This doesn't apply to my staging-testing branch due to other changes in
these files by other developers that were send before your patch.  Can
you please refresh your tree and rebase your patch and resend?

thanks,

greg k-h