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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 40/40] bnxt: cleanup null pointer checks
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 16:20:43 +0100
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On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 03:46:29PM -0700, Stephen Hurd wrote:
> Prefer !ptr to ptr == NULL
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hurd <stephen.hurd@broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ajit Kumar Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>

Nak to this particular patch, as it contradicts DPDK coding guidelines which is
to make NULL checks explicit. Ref [1]

/Bruce

[1] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/coding_style.html#c-statement-style-and-conventions