From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: SF Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 16:40:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] backlight: lp8788: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "backlight_ Message-Id: <54720DEB.4060109@users.sourceforge.net> List-Id: References: <5307CAA2.8060406@users.sourceforge.net> <530A086E.8010901@users.sourceforge.net> <530A72AA.3000601@users.sourceforge.net> <530B5FB6.6010207@users.sourceforge.net> <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Bryan Wu , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Jingoo Han , Lee Jones , Tomi Valkeinen , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall From: Markus Elfring Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:33:08 +0100 The backlight_device_unregister() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring --- drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c index d6c4f6a..24a055c 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c @@ -221,8 +221,7 @@ static void lp8788_backlight_unregister(struct lp8788_bl *bl) { struct backlight_device *bl_dev = bl->bl_dev; - if (bl_dev) - backlight_device_unregister(bl_dev); + backlight_device_unregister(bl_dev); } static ssize_t lp8788_get_bl_ctl_mode(struct device *dev, -- 2.1.3