netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] bridge: netfilter: checkpatch null comparison fixes

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Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2016 17:21:38 +0200
From:	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:	tcharding <me@...in.cc>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] bridge: netfilter: checkpatch null comparison fixes

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:26:58AM +1000, tcharding wrote:
> From: Tobin C Harding <me@...in.cc>
> 
> checkpatch produces comparison to null 'checks'.
> 
> This patch amends them.

We have quite a lot of these in the netfilter tree, so I'd rather
start using prefered coding style from now on rather than getting a
large patch to convert this. This just makes harder to pass back
patches to -stable branches as the process becomes not so immediate.