netdev - [patch -next] bnx2x: remove bogus check

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Message-ID: <20101221070401.GF1936@bicker>
Date:	Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:04:02 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
To:	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@...adcom.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch -next] bnx2x: remove bogus check

We dereferenced params on the line before so it's too late to check if
params is NULL.  In fact, params can never be NULL and strict_cos is
either 0 or 1 so that part of the check is bogus too.  Let's remove it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c
index 97cbee2..43b0de2 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_link.c
@@ -354,9 +354,6 @@ u8 bnx2x_ets_strict(const struct link_params *params, const u8 strict_cos)
 	struct bnx2x *bp = params->bp;
 	u32 val	= 0;
 
-	if ((1 < strict_cos) && (NULL == params))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	DP(NETIF_MSG_LINK, "ETS enabled strict configuration\n");
 	/**
 	 * Bitmap of 5bits length. Each bit specifies whether the entry behaves
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