netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Remove some pointless conditionals before kfree

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Message-ID: <20090224095506.GA21985@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:55:06 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Yang Hongyang <yanghy@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	yjwei@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Remove some pointless conditionals before
	kfree_skb()

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:54:25PM +0800, Yang Hongyang wrote:
>
> > These checks were specifically added so that callers didn't have
> > to check for NULL.
> 
> Yes,but if the the callers checked for NULL,it's OK right?

Well people will continue to send patches to remove them until
they're all gone :)

Really this isn't even worth discussing.

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