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Message-ID: <20221130092516.024873db@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2022 09:25:16 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     zhang.songyi@....com.cn, saeedm@...dia.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, mbloch@...dia.com,
        maorg@...dia.com, elic@...dia.com, jerrliu@...dia.com,
        cmi@...dia.com, vladbu@...dia.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5: remove NULL check before dev_{put,
 hold}

On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:00:34 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 03:41:27PM +0800, zhang.songyi@....com.cn wrote:
> > From: zhang songyi <zhang.songyi@....com.cn>
> > 
> > The call netdev_{put, hold} of dev_{put, hold} will check NULL,
> > so there is no need to check before using dev_{put, hold}.
> > 
> > Fix the following coccicheck warning:
> > /drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c:1450:2-10:
> > WARNING:
> > WARNING  NULL check before dev_{put, hold} functions is not needed.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: zhang songyi <zhang.songyi@....com.cn>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/lag/lag.c | 3 +--
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)  
> 
> Please change all places in mlx5 in one patch.

Your call as a mlx5 maintainer, but I'd say don't change them at all.
All these trivial patches are such a damn waste of time.

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