From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Jones Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 10:09:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] backlight: lp8788: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "backli Message-Id: <20141124100924.GC4241@x1> List-Id: References: <530C5E18.1020800@users.sourceforge.net> <530CD2C4.4050903@users.sourceforge.net> <530CF8FF.8080600@users.sourceforge.net> <530DD06F.4090703@users.sourceforge.net> <5317A59D.4@users.sourceforge.net> <54720DEB.4060109@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <54720DEB.4060109@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: Bryan Wu , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Jingoo Han , Tomi Valkeinen , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > From: Markus Elfring > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:33:08 +0100 What format is this? Can you use `git format-patch` and `git send-email` instead please? =20 > The backlight_device_unregister() function tests whether its argument is = NULL > and then returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed. >=20 > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. >=20 > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring > --- > drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c | 3 +-- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) >=20 > diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c b/drivers/video/backligh= t/lp8788_bl.c > index d6c4f6a..24a055c 100644 > --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c > +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lp8788_bl.c > @@ -221,8 +221,7 @@ static void lp8788_backlight_unregister(struct lp8788= _bl *bl) > { > struct backlight_device *bl_dev =3D bl->bl_dev; > =20 > - if (bl_dev) > - backlight_device_unregister(bl_dev); > + backlight_device_unregister(bl_dev); > } > =20 > static ssize_t lp8788_get_bl_ctl_mode(struct device *dev, --=20 Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org =E2=94=82 Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html