From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: atm: remove redundant null pointer check on dev->name Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:04:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20160818.210402.1412369491607112062.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1471345722-19203-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: colin.king@canonical.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1471345722-19203-1-git-send-email-colin.king@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Colin King Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:08:42 +0100 > From: Colin Ian King > > dev->name is a char array of IFNAMSIZ elements, hence can never be > null, so the null pointer check is redundant. Remove it. > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King Applied.