linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] ALSA: timer: Adjust 13 checks for null pointers

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Date:   Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:38:07 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     alsa-devel@...a-project.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@...il.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Sakamoto <o-takashi@...amocchi.jp>,
        Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...cle.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] ALSA: timer: Adjust 13 checks for null pointers

On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:29:52 +0200,
SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 09:54:42 +0200
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> The script “checkpatch.pl” pointed information out like the following.
> 
> Comparison to NULL could be written …
> 
> Thus fix the affected source code places.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

I won't apply this either for the same reason as patch 3.


thanks,

Takashi