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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 16:34:47 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] vmbus: Adjust five checks for null pointers
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: devel@linuxdriverproject.org, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>, "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Thu, 11 May 2017 18:19:21 +0200
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 17:52:38 +0200
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> The script “checkpatch.pl” pointed information out like the following.
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> Comparison to NULL could be written …
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> Thus fix the affected source code places.
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> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>

Please don't do these kind of checkpatch "fix ups" on existing code.
The comparison with NULL is fine, doing this is just useless churn.