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Message-ID: <20240617180006.767ebff9@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:00:06 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Kamal Heib <kheib@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Paolo
Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: sun3lance: Remove redundant assignment
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 10:52:31 -0400 Kamal Heib wrote:
> There is no point in initializing an ndo to NULL, therefore the
> assignment is redundant and can be removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kamal Heib <kheib@...hat.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/ethernet/amd/sun3lance.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/sun3lance.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/sun3lance.c
> index 246f34c43765..fe12051d8471 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/sun3lance.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/amd/sun3lance.c
> @@ -296,7 +296,6 @@ static const struct net_device_ops lance_netdev_ops = {
> .ndo_stop = lance_close,
> .ndo_start_xmit = lance_start_xmit,
> .ndo_set_rx_mode = set_multicast_list,
> - .ndo_set_mac_address = NULL,
> .ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
> };
>
We seem to have a lot of these:
$ git grep -E '^[[:space:]]\.[a-z_]*[[:space:]]*= NULL,' -- drivers/net/
| wc -l
287
and we try to discourage folks from sending cleanup patches to
very old device drivers. So, unfortunately, I'd prefer to leave
this code as is.
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