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Date:	Tue, 4 Sep 2012 17:53:43 +0200
From:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: drop unneeded check for NULL

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 04:21:54PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> usbnet_start_xmit() is always called with a valid skb

So, has the problem that this test worked around been fixed?

Thanks,
Richard

 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c |    3 +--
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> index 8531c1c..5234d20 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c
> @@ -1092,8 +1092,7 @@ netdev_tx_t usbnet_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb,
>  	unsigned long		flags;
>  	int retval;
>  
> -	if (skb)
> -		skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
> +	skb_tx_timestamp(skb);
>  
>  	// some devices want funky USB-level framing, for
>  	// win32 driver (usually) and/or hardware quirks
> -- 
> 1.7.7
> 
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