linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 -mm 2/9] netconsole: Remove bogus check

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Message-Id: <20070730024801.10828.79291.sendpatchset@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jul 2007 08:18:01 +0530
From:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joel Becker <joel.becker@...cle.com>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH v3 -mm 2/9] netconsole: Remove bogus check

From: Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>

[2/9] netconsole: Remove bogus check

The (!np.dev) check in write_msg() is bogus (always false), because:
np.dev is set by netpoll_setup(), which is called by init_netconsole()
before register_console(), so write_msg() cannot be triggered unless
netpoll_setup() successfully set np.dev. Also np.dev cannot go away
from under us, because netpoll_setup() grabs us reference on it. So
let's remove the bogus check.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@...jp.nec.com>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>

---

 drivers/net/netconsole.c |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index f1c2a2d..2c2aef1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -67,9 +67,6 @@ static void write_msg(struct console *con, const char *msg, unsigned int len)
 	int frag, left;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	if (!np.dev)
-		return;
-
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 
 	for (left = len; left;) {
-
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