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From: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Yoann Padioleau <padator@wanadoo.fr>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, dhowells@redhat.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/68] 0 -> NULL, for arch/frv
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 12:21:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hcnq9mf2.fsf@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070727100004.GV27237@ftp.linux.org.uk> (Al Viro's message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:00:04 +0100")

Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> writes:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:44:35AM +0200, Yoann Padioleau wrote:
>>  	pte = pte_alloc_kernel(pme, va);
>> -	if (pte != 0) {
>> +	if (pte != NULL) {
>>  		err = 0;
>>  		set_pte(pte, mk_pte_phys(pa & PAGE_MASK, prot));
>>  	}
>> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ void *consistent_alloc(gfp_t gfp, size_t
>>  
>>  	/* allocate some common virtual space to map the new pages */
>>  	area = get_vm_area(size, VM_ALLOC);
>> -	if (area == 0) {
>> +	if (area == NULL) {
>>  		free_pages(page, order);
>>  		return NULL;
>
> Same comment about comparisons with NULL after allocation...

I don't understand. pte is a pointer right ? So why should we
keep the == 0 ? 


  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-27 10:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-27  9:44 [PATCH 06/68] 0 -> NULL, for arch/frv Yoann Padioleau
2007-07-27 10:00 ` Al Viro
2007-07-27 10:21   ` Yoann Padioleau [this message]
2007-07-27 10:40     ` Al Viro
2007-07-27 10:14 ` David Howells
2007-07-27 10:18   ` Yoann Padioleau
2007-07-28  1:38     ` Robin Getz
2007-07-28  1:37       ` Mike Frysinger
2007-07-31 12:04         ` Richard Knutsson
2007-08-01 10:03           ` Mike Frysinger
2007-08-01 10:38             ` Richard Knutsson
2007-08-01 20:28               ` Matt Mackall
2007-08-02 14:58               ` Robin Getz

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