From: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
To: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Christophe Leroy (CS GROUP)" <chleroy@kernel.org>
Cc: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] powerpc/powermac: Simplify bootx_scan_dt_build_struct()
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:14:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260720231453.117271-2-thorsten.blum@linux.dev> (raw)
Assign the empty string directly instead of NULL checking namep again.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c
index 72eb99aba40f..abceae91dfde 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powermac/bootx_init.c
@@ -284,9 +284,7 @@ static void __init bootx_scan_dt_build_struct(unsigned long base,
dt_push_token(OF_DT_BEGIN_NODE, mem_end);
/* get the node's full name */
- namep = np->full_name ? (char *)(base + np->full_name) : NULL;
- if (namep == NULL)
- namep = "";
+ namep = np->full_name ? (char *)(base + np->full_name) : "";
l = strlen(namep);
DBG("* struct: %s\n", namep);
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