netdev - Re: brcm80211: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call"release

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Date:	Thu, 26 Nov 2015 12:04:50 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>,
	Brett Rudley <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	"Franky (Zhenhui) Lin" <frankyl@...adcom.com>,
	Hante Meuleman <meuleman@...adcom.com>,
	brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: brcm80211: Delete an unnecessary check before the function
 call"release_firmware"


> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:48:23 +0100
> 
> The release_firmware() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
> returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>

Thanks, applied to wireless-drivers-next.git.

Kalle Valo
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