linux-kernel - Re: - isapnp-remove-pointless-check-of-type-against-0-in-isapnp_read

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:15:11 +0200
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mm-commits@...r.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: - isapnp-remove-pointless-check-of-type-against-0-in-isapnp_read_tag.patch removed from -mm tree

On 16/07/07, akpm@...ux-foundation.org <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The patch titled
>      isapnp: remove pointless check of 'type' against 0 in isapnp_read_tag()
> has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
>      isapnp-remove-pointless-check-of-type-against-0-in-isapnp_read_tag.patch
>
> This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
>
> ------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: isapnp: remove pointless check of 'type' against 0 in isapnp_read_tag()
> From: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
>
> In drivers/pnp/isapnp/core.c::isapnp_read_tag() there is a test of 'type'
> being == 0 a bit down in the function.  That test doesn't make any sense.
> If 'type' could indeed be NULL, then the test happens way too late as we'd
> already have tried to dereference the pointer earlier and looking at the
> callers it also turns out that there is no way type can ever actually be
> NULL.
>
> So the test is completely pointless and should just be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

I should have included this in the patch changelog, but I forgot.
Credit should be given where credit is due, even for small stuff like
this. So, for the record:
Thanks go to Andrew Morton for pointing out errors in my initial patch
and pointing me at the fact that callers never actually cause a null
'type' - thank you Andrew for your always careful review of even the
most simple of patches.

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