linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer

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Date:   Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:50:25 -0400
From:   "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Bradley Grove <linuxdrivers@...otech.com>,
        "James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        "Martin K . Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SCSI] esas2r: remove redundant NULL check on buffer

Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com> writes:

> buffer is a pointer to the static char array event_buffer and
> therefore can never be null, so the check is redundant. Remove it.

Applied to 4.12/scsi-queue. Thank you!

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering