linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: goldfish: Fix minor coding style

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Message-ID: <20141213190705.0faaf119@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 13 Dec 2014 19:07:05 +0000
From:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Loic Pefferkorn <loic@...cp.eu>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, alan@...ux.intel.com,
	jun.j.tian@...el.com, octavian.purdila@...el.com, nnk@...gle.com,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: goldfish: Fix minor coding style

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:29:26 +0100
Loic Pefferkorn <loic@...cp.eu> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> The convention for checking for NULL pointers is !ptr and not ptr == NULL.
> This patch fixes such occurences in goldfish driver, it applies against next-20141212
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Loic Pefferkorn <loic@...cp.eu>

Pointless churn. It makes it less readable if anything, and it removes
the type safety as you are now checking against 0 not (void *)0

NAK

Alan
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