linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cxl: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "of_node

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2016 18:57:07 +1000
From:	Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>
To:	Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:	Christophe Lombard <clombard@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ian Munsie <imunsie@....ibm.com>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxl: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call
 "of_node_put"

On 20/07/16 23:38, Julia Lawall wrote:
> I don't think that the call should be there at all.  The loop only exits
> when afu_np is NULL.  Furthermore, the loop should not be written as a for
> loop, but rather with for_each_child_of_node.

Will send a patch to fix both issues shortly.

-- 
Andrew Donnellan              OzLabs, ADL Canberra
andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com  IBM Australia Limited