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To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: lpfc: remove unnnecessary NULL check
From: "Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)" <mkp@kernel.org>
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Dan,

> The "evt_dat" variale is non-NULL at this point so there is no need to
> check. Delete the check and pull the code in a tab.

Applied to 7.3/scsi-staging, thanks!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen