linux-kernel - Re: ALSA: ctxfi: Delete an unnecessary check before kfree()

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Message-ID: <1417626888.2902.13.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:14:48 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: ALSA: ctxfi: Delete an unnecessary check before kfree()

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 13:41 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 03 Dec 2014 12:38:51 +0100,
> SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > 
> > >>   Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
> > >>   One function call less in get_daio_rsc() after error detection
> > > 
> > > In these cases, the changes aren't so straightforward, and they don't
> > > improve the readability.
> > 
> > How do you prefer to improve the affected source code here?
> 
> Don't touch then.  There are no bugs to fix there.

Takashi, what did you think of this?
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/12/2/771

Just unnecessary?

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