netdev - Re: [PATCH] mkiss: remove redundant check for len

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Date:   Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:12:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     colin.king@...onical.com
Cc:     johannes.berg@...el.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mkiss: remove redundant check for len > 0

From: Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:43:07 +0100

> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The check for len > 0 is always true and hence is redundant as
> this check is already being made to execute the code inside the
> while-loop. Hence it is redundant and can be removed.
> 
> Cleans up cppcheck warning:
> drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c:220: (warning) Identical inner 'if'
> condition is always true.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Applied.