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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] vmbus: Adjust five checks for null pointers
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 09:34:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170511093447.7e5b66e4@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bca350e0-9523-dd6e-4dd8-a0f8ee93dc87@users.sourceforge.net>

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
> MIME-Version: 1.0
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> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> 
> The script “checkpatch.pl” pointed information out like the following.
> 
> Comparison to NULL could be written …
> 
> Thus fix the affected source code places.
> 
> 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.

      reply	other threads:[~2017-05-11 16:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-11 16:14 [PATCH 0/4] VMBus: Adjustments for some function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] vmbus: Improve a size determination in vmbus_device_create() SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-11 17:47     ` Greg KH
2017-05-11 16:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] vmbus: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation " SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-11 16:36     ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:42       ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-12  7:09     ` [PATCH 2/4] " Dan Carpenter
2017-05-12  7:32       ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-12  7:52         ` Joe Perches
2017-05-12  8:23           ` Clarification for general change acceptance SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-12  8:37             ` Julia Lawall
2017-05-12  8:45               ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] vmbus: Fix a typo in a comment line SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:33   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-11 16:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] vmbus: Adjust five checks for null pointers SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:34   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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