linux-kernel - Re: s390/net: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls

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Date:	Mon, 03 Nov 2014 17:10:35 +0100
From:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:	Ursula Braun <ubraun@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:	Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Frank Blaschka <blaschka@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux390@...ibm.com, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org, Coccinelle <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: s390/net: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function
 calls

> I agree with your proposed debug_unregister() changes, but not with your
> kfree_fsm() change.

Why do you want to keep an additional null pointer check before the call
of the kfree_fsm() function within the implementation of the
netiucv_free_netdevice() function?

Regards,
Markus
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