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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mitali Borkar <mitaliborkar810@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, mitali_s@me.iitr.ac.in
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8192e: fixed pointer error by adding '*'
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 15:14:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHGksKltkkmaUeAk@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YHGhdtldqAlRsPHT@kali>

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 06:30:38PM +0530, Mitali Borkar wrote:
> Fixed Comparison to NULL can be written as '!...' by replacing it with
> simpler form i.e. boolean expression. This makes code more readable
> alternative.
> Reported by checkpatch.

Checkpatch did not report this specific problem, Julia did :)

And this changelog text does not reflect the commit you made here.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitali Borkar <mitaliborkar810@gmail.com>

We need a "Reported-by:" line here to reflect that someone reported the
problem as well.

Ideally it will have a "Fixes:" tag also, but I can add that if you
don't know how to do that just yet.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-10 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-10 13:00 [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8192e: fixed pointer error by adding '*' Mitali Borkar
2021-04-10 13:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-04-10 13:37   ` Mitali Borkar
2021-04-10 13:48     ` Greg KH
2021-04-10 13:23 ` [Outreachy kernel] " Julia Lawall
2021-04-10 13:26   ` Greg KH

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