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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:35:00 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ALSA: pcm: Adjust 11 checks for null pointers
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To: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@sakamocchi.jp>, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:25:49 +0200,
SF Markus Elfring wrote:
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> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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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>

Converting only these alone doesn't give any big merit.  Another patch
in the series fixed the style if ((err = xxx)), so it's fine, though.

checkpatch is no bible, after all.


thanks,

Takashi