netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] netlink: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "__module

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:28:01 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, cocci@...teme.lip6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netlink: Deletion of an unnecessary check before
 the function call "__module_get"

From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:08:39 +0100

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:03:13 +0100
> 
> The __module_get() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
> returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
> 
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Applied, thanks.
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