linux-kernel - [PATCH 07/15 RESEND] staging: dgnc: remove redundant NULL check for brd

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Date:	Wed, 6 Jul 2016 15:15:34 +0900
From:	Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
To:	lidza.louina@...il.com
Cc:	markh@...pro.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 07/15 RESEND] staging: dgnc: remove redundant NULL check for
 brd

the "brd" value cannot be NULL in dgnc_finalize_board_init().
Because "brd" as a parameter of this function was already
checked for NULL.

the dgnc_finalize_board_init() as a static function was called
only from dgnc_found_board() function and brd->magic value
was assigned once in dgnc_found_board(). So it doesn't need to
check for DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC value.

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
---
RESEND: This patch was not merged for a long time, if there is any reason
why this patch could NOT be merged into staging tree, let me know.
There were no comment for this patch.
I cannot understand why this patch have to wait long time to merge.
And I also sent emails to mailing-lists for reminding this patch...
please let me know, what is the problem to merge this patch into staging tree.

 drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
index af2e835..22257d2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
@@ -579,9 +579,6 @@ static int dgnc_finalize_board_init(struct dgnc_board *brd)
 {
 	int rc = 0;
 
-	if (!brd || brd->magic != DGNC_BOARD_MAGIC)
-		return -ENODEV;
-
 	if (brd->irq) {
 		rc = request_irq(brd->irq, brd->bd_ops->intr,
 				 IRQF_SHARED, "DGNC", brd);
-- 
1.9.1