linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: atm: remove redundant null pointer check on dev->name

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Message-Id: <20160818.210402.1412369491607112062.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2016 21:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: atm: remove redundant null pointer check on
 dev->name

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:08:42 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> dev->name is a char array of IFNAMSIZ elements, hence can never be
> null, so the null pointer check is redundant. Remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.